What is Drama?
What’s the first thing that comes to your mind when you think of drama? A stage with few people wearing some fancy dresses and narrating a play with their acting? Well, that’s drama definitely! However, am talking about the internal drama that we all witness within ourselves.
Eckhart Tolle talks about Drama in his book ‘The Power of Now’, he mentions about the drama we create in our behaviour in any situation. Well, this Drama looked something like this to me: “It’s a constant fight between your emotions and your mind that tags the emotion right or wrong and commands you to behave in a certain way”.
Connecting to my past memories and my behaviour, I can say that Drama to me is a constant struggle between what I really believe I should do compared to what I really did. A simple question comes in mind, why I act differently to what I believe in some situations? Why I don’t find myself in congruency with my actions? At those moments, do I really lose the touch with my inner reality of what I am and my values are aligned to?
Deep within, I always prayed for everyone’s happiness and no body should live a discontented or sad life. That believe and the emotions attached with it are so strong; that when I even deny the thoughts when I secretly wish for something bad to happen to anyone who has wronged me. These emotions are natural in my extreme emotional breakdowns. That tags along a feeling of accusation in my mind and I label myself as BAD. The thoughts are tagged as ‘Dark feelings’ and not to be paid attention to because we need to think positive and poison free to live a better life. This denial and the conflict of owning your own feelings can sometimes be very stressful.
In my constant struggle when am bust tagging the emotions, I don’t let my emotions flow and the toxicity to come out. The only way out for me has been to accept yourself totally the way you are! There can be no judgement attached while acknowledging your feelings. We all have our emotional Highs and Lows, we all go through it and recover it in our own way. What might worked for me, may not work for you; but we all will figure it out. The more we fight with our feelings, the more we feel drained and confused. The more openly we acknowledge and accept, the more liberating we feel and more channels open up.
It’s about you consciously choosing how long you want to drain yourself in denying your emotions. Keep searching within and keep accepting yourself with your imperfections without any judgement!