do you need floor time?

I have to admit....I'm a fan of Grey's. The season started this past week, and as all of us girls sat together to share in the moment I was hit by a theme within the show that really spoke to me. Izzy, a woman struggling with the loss of her love, spends the entire show laying on the floor. At the time I felt stupid with my comment....."Wouldn't it be nice to just lie on the floor and....feel?" My friends looked at me and laughed.

Could you take a second and just think.....how often do we avoid what we are actually feeling and replace those emotions with our everyday activities? Do we often fill our lives so full of "stuff" that we have no time to experience what we go through....could this be the reason that there is an increased rate in therapy and other psychological treatments?

I know in my life I don't feel half of the things that come my way. Often things are thrown at me and I burry them deep down within me to hide any visible sign of vulnerability. I'm not saying to constantly be a HUGE emotional disaster. I'm saying maybe it's ok to be sad when a friend betrays you...or you feel overwhelmed with the things that have come your way. Can I challenge you to take a moment.....alone...and just lay on the floor...and just...be? Experience what you are going through.....look inward and ask God to reveal to you the things that you have been avoiding. Maybe it involves crying, maybe not. I just think that this concept is imperative to our well-being and aids in the positive development of our character. Make sure that, like Izzy, once the healing process has been completed you can stand up, and step out of the old "dress" and move on to your future, don't get stuck on the floor.