Crying (tears coming from eyes)

[Joshe]

Loss, empathy, and beauty make you cry. Thoughts trigger emotions. Stories trigger them even more. You can build channels or pathways in your psyche for every emotion. The more you beat those paths (create stories and dwell there), the more powerful they become for activating the emotion.

If you create high-fidelity channels for empathy and beauty, when you watch the puppy video, you might cry out of empathy, and you might cry even harder when you stack the beauty of the rescue on top of that. 

With beauty, it’s in the way that you process stories and apply previously derived meaning onto the current reality.

I can make myself cry if I spend time fleshing out those emotions, but I haven’t done that in a long time, so fidelity has been lost, so I did not cry at the video. There was once a time when the sight of the sky could make my eyes water. Or I’d add my own beauty to a random song and then sob. That’s how beauty makes you cry. 

Crying is very spiritual and cathartic. I recommend learning how to do it, and it can be learned. 

Edited Friday at 11:17 PM by Joshe