Is this normal?

[Infinite]

Hi Friends,

I'm new on this forum but I have been a long-time lurker, lot of great people and great posts. My problem is that I have been very emotional for the past three days and been crying a lot on daily basis. I feel like a piece of me is missing and don't know what it is. Just thinking about someone or a something that I did years ago makes me cry. I feel like I miss the past and don't belong in the world. I'm longing for something that I don't what it is. Please help me understand this.

Again Thanks Guys!

[Fullcrum]

I'm not going to try to define your problem as I don't think it's what you need right now. Maybe later.

All I'd recommend is doing whatever you need to do to feel really really good. Feel incredible. Use hypnosis - become relaxed, focus on your breathing, and imagine a time when you felt really really good. Then double the brightness of that image, double the volume of the sounds and the sensations you feel all over your body. Imagine a warm pulsating light of a color of your choice that contains all that good feeling and move it around your body.

Alternately, you can become extremely present. Just stop thinking and notice your breath. And cease thought. Even 10 seconds is good. I don't care if people will think you're stupid for doing that - it's your path and you choose how you want to develop internal strength.

When you're feeling better, assume a confident and erect posture, take a deep breath, allow a big smile to cross your face, and then tell us what you think could possibly be causing this.

[Alexjstrandberg]

Seems like you are going through a dark night(s) of the soul and releasing a lot of emotional stuff-it's a good thing

[maxdof]

Originally Posted by Fullcrum

I'm not going to try to define your problem as I don't think it's what you need right now. Maybe later.

All I'd recommend is doing whatever you need to do to feel really really good. Feel incredible. Use hypnosis - become relaxed, focus on your breathing, and imagine a time when you felt really really good. Then double the brightness of that image, double the volume of the sounds and the sensations you feel all over your body. Imagine a warm pulsating light of a color of your choice that contains all that good feeling and move it around your body.

Alternately, you can become extremely present. Just stop thinking and notice your breath. And cease thought. Even 10 seconds is good. I don't care if people will think you're stupid for doing that - it's your path and you choose how you want to develop internal strength.

When you're feeling better, assume a confident and erect posture, take a deep breath, allow a big smile to cross your face, and then tell us what you think could possibly be causing this.

Nice NLP and Body Language tips. If you want to know more, read Derren Brown: Tricks of The Mind. There is all is needed about NLP, more of NLP is scam.

I really don't know what is happening to you Infinite. What is Infinite that you feel? What do you feel is missing?

[Infinite]

Originally Posted by Fullcrum

I'm not going to try to define your problem as I don't think it's what you need right now. Maybe later.

All I'd recommend is doing whatever you need to do to feel really really good. Feel incredible. Use hypnosis - become relaxed, focus on your breathing, and imagine a time when you felt really really good. Then double the brightness of that image, double the volume of the sounds and the sensations you feel all over your body. Imagine a warm pulsating light of a color of your choice that contains all that good feeling and move it around your body.

Alternately, you can become extremely present. Just stop thinking and notice your breath. And cease thought. Even 10 seconds is good. I don't care if people will think you're stupid for doing that - it's your path and you choose how you want to develop internal strength.

When you're feeling better, assume a confident and erect posture, take a deep breath, allow a big smile to cross your face, and then tell us what you think could possibly be causing this.

Thanks Fullcrum for this exercise. It helped me through the day today but I worried this might be temporary. I want to understand why I'm like this at this now and longing for something that I don't understand

[Infinite]

Originally Posted by Alexjstrandberg

Seems like you are going through a dark night(s) of the soul and releasing a lot of emotional stuff-it's a good thing

That's what one of my friend told me but it's been three day now that I have been crying.

[Infinite]

Originally Posted by maxdof

Nice NLP and Body Language tips. If you want to know more, read Derren Brown: Tricks of The Mind. There is all is needed about NLP, more of NLP is scam.

I really don't know what is happening to you Infinite. What is Infinite that you feel? What do you feel is missing?

Maxdof,

I wish I know the answer to your questions but I don't. That's why I'm here. I'm hoping that some who had a similar experience can shed some light on it.

[Fullcrum]

Do not worry if it will be temporary. Just do it. Do it for 30 minutes or an hour - just feel really good.

The good feeling will give you clarity and will give you the answer you seek.

Try this for at least several days.

[clementc82]

Go take a break.

Shift your focus on something else. I truly can't tell what you are missing at this moment too.

Just do what you want to to in life - within the legal boundaries of course. No looking back, the only way to go is to go forward!!!!!

[dannielo]

Get in touch with your friends, the ones that make you feel good.

[garentee]

Originally Posted by Infinite

That's what one of my friend told me but it's been three day now that I have been crying.

I had a period of time a few years back that that went on for about three months. It was all of the emotions I had repressed for nearly three decades. I still have days and periods like that and instead of fighting it I let it happen and enjoy it because I am getting to the core of my soul. Love yourself. Its good to feel that pain. G

[Kaspian]

There are lots of good suggestions here, and there might be several that appeal to you. Adding mine to the mix....

Tears can heal our emotional wounds, and strong emotion comes up to be acknowledged and released. If I have been suppressing things for a long time, when they do come up, it feels like it's unrelated to my current situation, and it's often quite strong.

Two things have helped me a lot: stream-of-consciousness writing and talking to an effective counselor. Writing by hand puts me in touch with what I'm thinking and feeling in a way that thinking alone cannot. I write whatever comes into my head for at least three pages, ignoring concerns about grammar, spelling, handwriting quality, organization, etc. Just free-writing. If I'm experiencing strong emotion, I might write for five pages. Putting my thoughts and feelings into sentences clarifies them, leads to realizations, and more often than not, releases the negative and empowers the positive. Try writing three pages by hand every morning for a couple of weeks and see what comes up.

Sometimes there are things that my powerful mind refuses to look at, and I'm too close to myself to see them. When I know there's something going on that I just can't see on my own, I schedule a session with a fabulous counselor I found. He's very skilled at seeing between the lines, cutting through the bull$h!t, and leading me to powerful, healthy change.

[The Cloud]

What do you feel you've lost that you are so empty? That is the root of what you are experiencing. Once you've found the root, then you can go about healing yourself.

[maxdof]

Originally Posted by Infinite

Maxdof,

I wish I know the answer to your questions but I don't. That's why I'm here. I'm hoping that some who had a similar experience can shed some light on it.

Do you feel a loss or gain in control of your life or conscienciousness?

[Tigerlilly]

Originally Posted by Infinite

Maxdof,

I wish I know the answer to your questions but I don't. That's why I'm here. I'm hoping that some who had a similar experience can shed some light on it.

I sometimes have inexplicable surges of thoughts and emotions, which I can't place within my life experience, and that's cause they are not mine but somebody else's and I only picked them up via empathy.

If there's something specific in the past that has you feeling lost now and break into tears, above said probably doesn't apply in your case.

Then it could also be that something you've surpressed until now, a memory or an emotion is breaking through, so you can deal with it and heal.

You haven't written much about whether it's something definite that has you feeling lost or whether the feeling has come over you out of nowhere, so it's hard to tell what lies at the root of the experience.

[Infinite]

Originally Posted by Fullcrum

Do not worry if it will be temporary. Just do it. Do it for 30 minutes or an hour - just feel really good.

The good feeling will give you clarity and will give you the answer you seek.

Try this for at least several days.

Thank you. I will continue doing it.

[Infinite]

Originally Posted by garentee

I had a period of time a few years back that that went on for about three months. It was all of the emotions I had repressed for nearly three decades. I still have days and periods like that and instead of fighting it I let it happen and enjoy it because I am getting to the core of my soul. Love yourself. Its good to feel that pain. G

Originally Posted by Tigerlilly

I sometimes have inexplicable surges of thoughts and emotions, which I can't place within my life experience, and that's cause they are not mine but somebody else's and I only picked them up via empathy.

If there's something specific in the past that has you feeling lost now and break into tears, above said probably doesn't apply in your case.

Then it could also be that something you've surpressed until now, a memory or an emotion is breaking through, so you can deal with it and heal.

You haven't written much about whether it's something definite that has you feeling lost or whether the feeling has come over you out of nowhere, so it's hard to tell what lies at the root of the experience.

Thanks guys for sharing your experiences. Mine that does not last that long. The last time this happened to me was back 2000 when I went on to cry for about a week for just thinking about something or looking at somebody or something. I'm starting to think that it might an emotional cleansing cause most of the thing that I cry about is something in the past. I feel I lived this life already and that I'm longing for something that happened back then and they are blurry to figure out what they are. I sometimes have dreams that happen in the past like 100 years ago and sometimes I have dreams where I see everything that's going to happen in my day. And everything just unfolds exactly like in the dreams. What's I don't understand is why is this happened all of a sudden and why the tears.

[Infinite]

Originally Posted by maxdof

Do you feel a loss or gain in control of your life or conscienciousness?

Originally Posted by The Cloud

What do you feel you've lost that you are so empty? That is the root of what you are experiencing. Once you've found the root, then you can go about healing yourself.

I don't feel like I "lost" anything per say but that I'm missing and longing for something that happened in my life. I feel like that I already lived this life and wonder what I'm doing here and wish could die at that moment. May be it's something that happened in my life that I'm reliving again....I don't know. I sometimes have dreams that happen in the past like 100 years ago and sometimes I have dreams where I see everything that's going to happen in my day. And everything just unfolds exactly like in the dreams.

[hkalchemy]

Sounds like you should get some professional help. Either that or totally accept your situation. Relish it. Enjoy it. In all its strangeness and in all your pain. Develop awareness.

[Infinite]

Guys the crying is back i was doing very well but yesterday i got a rush of emotions and feeling and it started all over again. Please help