It's amazing how cut off we can be from our deepest emotional self and not able to access it and become numb. I think many agree to meet apart of themselves and stay in that comfort zone relatively in tune...a place we can easily believe we master ourselves. Dare we go deeper and we may start losing control, or start fearing we shall lose control and loose it and become so vunerable, so open to being destroyed. I know I have felt this way. I know I have pushed a big part of my emotional self and cast it, disowned it into the underworld.But it's rising to the surface, we may think we know ourselves, we may even loose ourselves and our old sense of identity, but I do believe we eventually find a new part of ourselves, if only we allow it to birth and shine and see the strength in it. What society perceives as strength is different. Shame and guilt can be so thrown out the window
I think for most people are afraid of being exposed and destroyed. Especially in relationships. So instead we categorise, repress, manipulate, humiliate adore or ignore.....touch them lightly, let them go, shut them up..anything but bring them out the closet into the light, rise to the surface and feel them fully. Much easier to fix them, hide them, play with them.
Rarely do we truly honour them , channel them and recognise the innate intelligence that lies beneath them ,which helps us move forwards and connect us more and more to power of the cosmos and the greater whole, realising everything is just flowing through us as an experience of the One. We really do have our inner resources from within, that the external is constantly challenging and reflecting back. Pretty much repeating what you are saying in different words BUT I say Honour them, honour them and access them, until we start letting go of the attachments to what limit our spiritual mastery, which to me no longer seems spiritual - spirtuality and life are one of the same thing to me,to me it's just life and natural growth.