Honor Your True Feelings
Once you’ve been vegan for a while, you may find that the strength of
your emotions increases significantly, especially if you adopt a high-raw
diet. You’ll be much more in tune with your feelings, and it will be harder
to ignore them.
This has a major upside. Your emotional highs will be higher than ever.
You’ll be able to experience intense love and joy like you’ve never felt
before. You may look back on your animal eating days and realize that you
were an emotional zombie back then. As a vegan you’ll feel so much more
alive inside.
The flip side is that as the highs are amplified, so are the lows. You may
become much more sensitive to the feelings of others. If someone around
you is stressed or depressed, you’ll probably feel it. There are biological
reasons why this is so, which are beyond the scope of this article, but the
changes in your emotional sensitivity may cause ripples in other parts of
your life. It will be much harder to do work that doesn’t inspire you. It will
be much harder to stay in a lifeless relationship. It will be much harder to
hang out with negative people. It will be much harder to cause harm to
others.