Emotional Ailments

I call it "emotional ailments." You know, the places that hurt when you're feeling... Just feeling. Like when you get nervous, how your stomach may get a little queasy, or when you're angry, your head starts to hurt. I get those emotional ailments often and they bother me something terrible. Headaches, backaches, dizziness, stomach cramps, what I have proclaimed to be mini heart palpitations- they keep me from being myself. And no medicine, no home remedy, no relaxation techniques can cure them. So me, I close my eyes really tight, get down on my knees, and recite Psalm 23 again and again and again until I can breathe, until I can untangle the thoughts that crowd my head, until I can push away the boulders of pressure weighing me down. And I question, where does it all come from? Where did it all begin? And still, I haven't a clue, well maybe I do... Emotional ailments. That's what I call them.