Why You're Crying for No Reason — The Body Catching Up on Old Pain
About this episode
Kenny Weiss discusses the phenomenon of crying for no reason as a release of suppressed emotions from childhood.
Crying for no reason is the nervous system releasing emotion that the child was not allowed to express. This is not dysfunction, it is the body completing what was once incomplete. The tears are arriving on time, decades late. This video walks through why you are crying in parking lots, in showers, at commercials, in the arms of partners who did nothing wrong, and why your body is not malfunctioning, it is finishing. If you have been embarrassed by tears that come without warning, this names what is actually happening. Kenny Weiss is the creator of the Worst Day Cycle™, the Authentic Self Cycle™, and the Emotional Authenticity Method™. This teaching maps unexplained tears to the Emotional Permission System, dead spots thawing, suppressed grief returning, and the body completing what the child could not complete. Crying for no reason is rarely hormones, depression, or weakness. It is the nervous system releasing emotion the child was forbidden from expressing. The body does not forget grief, it waits until the adult life is finally safe enough to let it arrive. The childhood Emotional Permission System told most adults that sadness was not safe. Tears were dismissed, mocked, or…
People in this episode
Host: Kenny Weiss
Topics covered
- emotional release
- childhood trauma
- nervous system
- grief
- emotional expression
- self-improvement
Keywords
- crying
- nervous system
- emotional authenticity
- childhood
- grief
- emotional permission
- self-improvement
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