The Yay-sayer

We have mastered the power of rejecting life to its fullest. We really did an outstanding job. By labeling our experiences as good and bad, we instinctively made a separation, a duality, in our lives by which we start seeking out the "good" and avoiding the "bad". Accepting only half the reality, half the human experiences and emotions leads inevitably to hatred of this very life we're living, turning one into a "Nay-sayer". When in reality all experiences form a spectrum that comprises all of the human emotions. And each is beautiful, very beautiful, in its own way. One of the great benefits of meditation is that it allows us to come face to face with those very emotions we so despise and see them for what they really are, instead of running away from them like we've spent a lifetime doing. Approaching this spectrum of human emotions with an open heart and a curious mind allows us to remove the labels from them and accept life to the fullest. In essence, it transforms one from a "Nay-sayer" to a "Yay-sayer" to life.  If we were to consider emotions as "energy in motion" then by dwelling in the past and reliving our emotions, we only fuel an already established network of events in our minds that lead/leads/will always lead to the same mindset that created the event (with its accompanying emotion) in the first place. The energy, in a word, becomes trapped. And this is mostly the case when one lacks a purpose, a why, for the energy to actually be free to create. Lacking a target is a disease we are living for so long. And with the establishment of a target, the energy will start becoming free to move, allocating itself in serving of that purpose. A side effect: no more dwelling in the past and its emotions, accepting it for what it is. After all, "past experiences without emotional overdrive is called wisdom".