brokenChild wrote:Rrryan wrote:
I had a good cry at the tail end of a trip recently. It was hard and sad! I certainly wouldn't strive for it.
Aim for the glory, you know.
sometimes we all need a good cry, I think it functions naturally to clear out a lot of emotions and is generally refreshing from time to time. It's only when you get stuck in a chronic emo loop that it stands to be more harmful than helpful; everything in proper measure and moderation... but in this case moderation does not mean luke-warm half and half... do everything totally to let everything totally out, but then be available to the opposite expression as well; don't get stuck to any one extreme. Generally if we just allow things to happen totally the balance maintains itself.
I agree with brokenChild here. My ayahuasca experience allowed me to be able to cry again after a very long time. It felt really great. I didn't chose the music during the ceremony, but it included sad and happy songs so a good mix is what you would aim for.
Mostly when I trip on my own or with friends we chose a complete playlist that fits the mood and tastes. I think a song that makes you cry is not necessarily sad, it could also be that it just moves you to tears through other emotions eg. gratefulness.
"It permits you to see, more clearly than our perishing mortal eye can see, vistas beyond the horizons of this life, to travel backwards and forwards in time, to enter other planes of existence, even (as the Indians say) to know God." R. Gordon Wasson