This is what people mean when they say, "You're in the honeymoon phase."
What they're saying is...
You're viewing your experiences through rose-colored glasses.
You're painting your experiences with this positive emotion.
But it can be sublter than that...
We could be watching a beautiful sunset, but if we have unexpressed anger or sadness trapped inside us we will likely be complaining about the cold.
About the traffic we hear in the distance...
Or about how the sun sets so early these days...
And completely miss the beauty in front of us.
But when we sit with and feel our emotions, we start living from a place of freedom.
Freedom to respond TO the situation at hand.
Rather than reacting THROUGH the emotions of the past.
Your experience of life is colored by the emotions you're not expressing.
And more importantly...
If you live your life in a pattern of self-censoring emotions, it will be hard to know what you think about a situation...
Whether you've been reacting through your past emotions.
Or responding to the situation.
And there's is a huge difference.