{"id":2135,"date":"2013-09-27T09:55:17","date_gmt":"2013-09-27T13:55:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.honeyishrunkthegrief.com\/blog\/?p=2135"},"modified":"2013-09-27T09:55:17","modified_gmt":"2013-09-27T13:55:17","slug":"the-power-of-tears","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.honeyishrunkthegrief.com\/blog\/2013\/09\/27\/the-power-of-tears\/","title":{"rendered":"The Power Of Tears"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2140\" title=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.honeyishrunkthegrief.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/ev_tears_sept27_2013.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"512\" height=\"384\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.honeyishrunkthegrief.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/ev_tears_sept27_2013.jpg 512w, https:\/\/www.honeyishrunkthegrief.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/ev_tears_sept27_2013-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.honeyishrunkthegrief.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/ev_tears_sept27_2013-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 512px) 100vw, 512px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Tears. \u00a0Was just deep in thought thinking about tears. \u00a0Where do they come from? \u00a0And what are they capable of?<br \/>\nI watched a cool scene in a movie the other day with my son. \u00a0A fallen tear from a phoenix quickly healed a deadly wound on the main character&#8217;s forearm. \u00a0It was just a movie, and I&#8217;ve yet to see a teary-eyed-phoenix-rescue in real life, but the scene came to mind just now when I was\u00a0thinking about the power of tears. \u00a0Maybe tears can heal deadly wounds? \u00a0Maybe they can heal the world&#8217;s deepest injuries?<br \/>\nMy guess is, that the main ingredient in tears, is love. \u00a0I wonder what would happen if whenever I cried, I put some tears on my finger, and then traced them over my heart, or over whatever was hurting. \u00a0I wonder if this action would help to complete the love\/tear connection. \u00a0I&#8217;m going to try to remember to do this the next time I cry.<br \/>\nDo you do anything healing with your tears? \u00a0Do they simply get wiped away on your shirt or the back of your hand?&#8230;that&#8217;s where most of mine go. \u00a0I know for me just having them usually feels cleansing enough without any further action taken&#8230;but I do like the idea of putting them on whatever hurts. \u00a0I&#8217;m going to try it and see what happens.<br \/>\nThanks for listening, and I hope any tears you shed in life help to water your soul.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>~ \u00a0 ~ \u00a0 ~ \u00a0 ~ \u00a0 ~ \u00a0 ~ \u00a0 ~<br \/>\nNow on Facebook!\u00a0<a title=\"click here for my HISTG.com FB page\" href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/HoneyIShrunkTheGrief\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/HoneyIShrunkTheGrief<br \/>\n<\/a>Now on Twitter!\u00a0<a title=\"click here for my HISTG.com Twitter page\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/EricVaiksnoras\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/EricVaiksnoras<br \/>\n<\/a>Check out my book!\u00a0<a title=\"my book \" href=\"http:\/\/www.honeyishrunkthegrief.com\/book\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.honeyishrunkthegrief.com\/book\/<br \/>\n<\/a>Feeling grateful? or feeling low?\u00a0<a title=\"HISTG Thank You Card blog post\" href=\"http:\/\/www.honeyishrunkthegrief.com\/blog\/2012\/09\/27\/sign-the-thank-you-card-today\/\">Sign the Thank You Card! \u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"click here to return to my home page\" href=\"http:\/\/www.honeyishrunkthegrief.com\/blog\/\">click here to return to home page<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tears. \u00a0Was just deep in thought thinking about tears. \u00a0Where do they come from? \u00a0And what are they capable of? 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