Inside, countless times, don’t we go through our Carnival of Emotions?
The “Real” Carnaval bombards us with a shower of stimuli. Strong colors, different perfumes, masks full of glitter, some elaborate costumes and others more practical, music of various styles, dances of many nuances, and people, lots of people!
Whether it’s on the street blocks in some capitals, following the trio elétrico in others, or parading in the samba schools, many people make up this intense flow that is Carnaval. This pulsation is not linear, but it is very intense, because even despite a natural tiredness for so much movement, everything continues absurdly fast!
And doesn’t it happen like that inside us? A day can start discouraged, monotonous, without perspectives. The internal feeling is of boredom, laziness, low energy. Many times, in a few hours, situations happen very fast and in sequence, what was a downward pulse turns into a strong impulse that leads us to an unthought action, fed by anger, which fantasizes of irritation, or a short breath, “almost breathless” of an anxiety that decides to appear at that very moment, trying to convince us that we are not able to solve that context.
Carnival of out-of-season emotions
As on an Ash Wednesday, the end of the “carnival” day makes present all the fatigue of so many different emotions and chemicals in our body, which seem not to want to stop (something like a post-Carnival, you know?).
“But Dani, how to deal with this Carnival out of season? And my humble answer is: “Look inside yourself, with a lot of truth, patience and above all, self-compassion, and observe what makes your Carnival start and set with such intensity.” Can we soften so much noise … so much confusion … so many sensations that intersect and seem to lead nowhere? Yes J Is it easy? Noup
The challenge is to learn to dance with this Carnaval of Emotions. The first step in this dance is the search to change our thought patterns, leaving behind beliefs that put us down and serve as a trigger for a parade with a horror movie plot.
At the dance of life we can choose
We continue this “dance” by making ourselves available for daily learning with another look at each situation. Everything becomes valid. We begin to gain the power of choice! We are going to act sometimes as before and that is okay, because the “old pattern” wants to stay, but we will realize and with much love and care for us, we will act for our transformation, so that our Carnaval is no longer a roller coaster ride without brakes and without direction, but a celebration of delicious moments, laughter, butterflies in the stomach, joy, and eagerness to make it happen!
And after this leap of courage to dance with something so intense and unknown, which gives many twists, stomps, stumbles, falls, but also beautiful executions of steps, our friend Tempo tells us: “Congratulations on the beautiful dance that you learned to dance with your Carnaval! Allow yourself to always co-create with him, because therein lies the secret of the extreme beauty of your parade. “