Hi 51LV3R
I want to start by offering a huge CONGRATULATIONS😁🎉 on making it out the other end of a 13 year stint in the Australian education system. A challenging system at times, that's for sure.
Not sure whether you can relate but I've found it can be challenging when it comes to how to add to our unwritten 'dictionary' or reference book of emotions as we go through life facing new experiences. While there can be emotions we're familiar with and can easily define, others can come along leaving us thinking 'What is this emotion? How would I describe/define it and what's led me to feel it?'.
While I've found it can be helpful to have a bit of an education on chemical energy, when it comes to chemistry like dopamine, serotonin, cortisol and all that kind of stuff that determines how we're feeling at any given time, I think it can be just as helpful to strip emotions back to basics occasionally. Whether we call it 'basic energy' or 'natural energy', it's the kind of energy in motion or e-motion that we might simply call 'excitement', 'peace', 'bliss', 'sadness', 'overwhelming stress' etc etc.
At this stage of my life and through my experiences as a 56yo gal, I've come to define 'peace' as
- the absence of conflict and/or
- the result of letting go
With letting go or sacrificing, we don't have to let go of or sacrifice our entire self. Personally, I've found it's more about the parts of me that keep me in a state of conflict of some kind, the parts that can sometimes point to me being so far from who I naturally am to the degree where it can be painful, exhausting, depressing and more. With so many natural emotions to sense and better define, I would define 'a sudden and overwhelming sense of liberation' as 'the feeling of free falling (from that which once had a hold on me or from that which I had a hold on)'. Whether that involves suddenly being released from other's expectations, my own limiting belief systems or something else, there can definitely be a sense of liberation. While free falling sounds a little terrifying, if you can imagine what happens when you spread your arms out, it changes to a sense of soaring. The challenge can sometimes come down to how we master the release or free fall. Can be hard to know what to do exactly with a new found sense of freedom like a kind we may never experienced before. The most important thing of all is that we remain here in this world to experience it, feel it and navigate our way through it.
Btw, in my own personal dictionary there are certain words I don't allow in. One of those words is 'failure'. I find it serves no purpose other than sufferance. Instead, I find it fair to question 'What am I failing to acknowledge?' or 'What am I failing to understand?' or 'Why am I failing to take action? What's stopping me?' and so on. While such questions promote an open mind, the word 'failure' can have our mind closed around a false sense of who we think we are.
