EXTRESSION/REPRESSION

Expression and Repression
Can be either processes of Doing, or states of Being.

As a verb, a way of Doing ----
People who are expressing their ecstasy, or rage, or whatever...
Are too busy paying it out on someone else
To have it themselves.
Their experience is of the expressing,
Not of the thing being expressed.
I know people (including myself sometimes)
Who express emotion in order to avoid having it.
One evening at Uluru I was watching a gorgeous sunset
When some inconsiderate  cosmic wanker,
Totally in love with the sound of her own voice,
Started waxing loudly lyrical about the light, the quality of the energy, the chi, and everything else she identified herself with at the time.
I got annoyed because she was pulling me out of my experience.
I wanted to yell at her,
"Please....Shut up and HAVE your experience;
And let me have mine!".
(I chose instead to bite my tongue
And have my experience of "frustration-and-anger-at-sunset").

Expressing and Repressing experience are sure ways to keep you attached
To whatever is pulling your lariat.
The only way to complete with an experience
Is the HAVE it,
Preferably without guilt or judgment.
But if other such experiences attach themselves,
Simply acknowledge their presence
And include them in the party.

As a noun, a state of being ---
Expression and Repression happen naturally
When you simply BE what you are.
What you are emanates from your Being.
There's a natural authenticity about that.

You can simply get out of your own way;
BE what you are, and HAVE what you've got.
Now that's a way to behave!
And it's neither rocket science nor sainthood.

Can you be what you are?
Can you have what you've got?
Of course you can!
We may both be a little out of practice,
But our intention will always show up.
So have it.
So be it.