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When emotional expression gets spiritually interpreted without consent

I started crying during our silent sit and afterwards three people told me they were proud of my breakthrough but it was not a breakthrough I was just sad and now I feel like I performed emotion for them.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The projection of spiritual significance onto natural human emotion is creating performance pressure.

Ideas that help explain it
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