Inertia is the resistance of an object to change in its motion.  Think of a car: it takes a great amount of effort to get a vehicle to begin moving, and it takes great effort to make it stop as well.  If you’ve ever seen or been in a car crash, you know very well that this is true. 

So, emotional inertia.  The resistance of a feeling to change in its motion.  Emotions move; the word “motion” is right there in the word.  They sweep and roll and change direction.  They fly and fall and leap.  And boy is it hard to stop them when they get going down a specific path.  Ever had that feeling of a car crash happening in your heart?  Emotional inertia.  Ever had the depleted feeling that you couldn’t even inhale deep enough to feel a sensation in the chest?  Emotional inertia.

So what are we to do?  How do we navigate the force of emotional mass?  I do not believe that it is useful to think that we should control or check emotions, but we can recognize that they are only a piece of our whole experience.  Though they might take us on an intense ride from time to time, they are only one facet of the infinitely more complex YOU.

Be intense.  But be willing to travel to the other side of intensity.