Sadness Is a Refining Emotion

Sadness is a refining emotion. Sadness is not a refining emotion to rid of something impure, but rather allows for pure emotional expression to flow. The presence of sadness means something, somewhere, or someone is worth feeling something about.

Sadness is the evidence of things unseen but known.

Sadness creates a refining process that cleanses, honors expression without words, holds space for both pain and joy, taps stored energy, and encourages renewal.

Sadness is one of those emotions that holds all that it carries until it’s ready to release. To cry, to shed tears, to know the heart’s tenderness, and to speak joy without containment is the fullness of sadness.

We need the fullness of sadness; we need its refining qualities as well. To know sadness is to know a full part of ourselves and see in others a similar part.

Sadness connects rather than distances, because the evidence is not being alone in what sadness brings when experiencing discontentment, disappointment, disadvantages, grief and loss, despair, helplessness, disempowerment, or sorrow. Sadness takes what hurts to what heals. To know hurt means to know it’s anecdote, healing.