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Originally Posted by Virginiaham
I'm 26 now and have noticed within the past year or two that I can no longer hide emotions like I used to and I cry MUCH more easily.
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There's your answer... You've been suppressing the emotional energy in the past - and now it's like it can't be pushed down and away any longer, so it's starting to leak out. This is actually something that you need to experience... It has to come out and be consciously processed... Highly recommend you check out Michael Singer's book (The Untethered Soul)...
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Originally Posted by Virginiaham
I searched for 'tips on how to stop crying' and many of the websites said to inflict pain on yourself as a distraction... As someone who struggles with self harm that was not helpful, but I don't know what else to do.
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My early impression from reading your first post is that you currently hold some type of negative association with crying - thereby creating an aversion to it (making it an enemy). I feel like you are going to have to work hard to change/shift/alter/transform your relationship with the act/experience of crying. The longer you continue to see it as something negative (something to avoid) - the more you are going to delay the release of the sensitive emotional material (energy) that you are still holding within you. There is 'stuff' inside you that needs to come out, and be released - so you can become free from it... I would highly encourage you to reexamine your relationship with crying and shed light on why you have developed aversions to it (perhaps examine your childhoood relationship dynamics).
By the way - if I encountered someone crying in public, I wouldn't be embarrassed for them, instead I would feel concern/sympathy/empathy....