Day 80 - A Year of Spiritual Awakening - If You Do Not Want...
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Lesson 80: If you do not want...
Today is about another reiteration of pain. That pain can only be passed through, and there is no way to avoid it by going around it, or placing it on hold. If you don’t want to continue being in pain, it’s about taking on board ALL of the pain in order for your to move forward from it.
So, in the next few days think about all the pain in your life and really take a moment with yourself to feel it all. Then ready yourself to let it all go and the exercise says to just simply release it. You have the power to do this. We all have the power.
I personally feel that my problem is all the attached feeling and emotions I have that come along with pain that I need to release. Like anger, sadness, disappointment… the list goes on and on. I think feeling the pain fully is doable, but then I still think those attached feelings may reside, which is not something easily you can let go of because they are ingrained into your habits, or are your go to reaction (which is automatic) when faced with a similar situation.
What I really think with all the exercises with pain is to more mindful and have more acceptance of it. It’s a natural part of life but it’s how you can overcome it that makes the difference. I definitely think we can release the circumstances that have caused us pain, though don’t think releasing the attached emotions and feelings is as easily done. I feel like that can take time with some retraining of the brain in how we do things and how we react to things. I don’t know, what do you think?