Emotions

Why do we have so much fear around feeling emotions?  They seem to either get stuffed down where we create some type of pattern behavior to cope with them, or we let them out and don't hold any punches and create more upheaval in our lives.  Emotion is energy in motion, meaning, a reaction to our environment based on the situations from the past that now are part of the judge and jury of the current situation at hand.  Hmmm..sounds overly complicated and something worth stuffing down.  Ice cream anyone?
Ok, so even though we feel justified in our emotions, it would be helpful to understand that anything based on the past is baggage.  When we completely let go of emotions, which is also letting go of the past, as well as releasing the ego, we are just left with feelings.  Feelings are genuine.  Feelings are based on what is happening right now.  Feelings can make us cry or make us feel like we are flying but either way it feels authentic and magnficent because its raw, pure and untainted energy, and there you have it.  Your authentic, magnificent, ego-less self.  What better feeling can we have than what it feels like to be this authentic self, especially when we haven't allowed it for 30ish years, oh I mean, all of your years.