Many humans of today’s world emerge onto the Earth scene numbed via epidurals and sterility. There was a time when babies were screamed into their human incarnation, and their first contact with a person wasn’t through surgical gloves and hospital linen. Instead of being blinded by antibiotic eye drops and whisked away to an incubator, the wailing newborn was thrust naked onto the mother’s heaving, sweaty chest as she gasped for the strength to expel the placenta. Pain was a part of the human tapestry from the get-go.
Transformation of any kind hurts. A chick having to peck its way out of its ovoid jail is a harsh initiation into the three dimensional world. Salmon battle savage currents while swimming upstream in order to birth their offspring.
Suck it up, Nature says, and know that the toiling leads to eventual reward. Pain is written into the system. But suffering, the ‘poor me, woe is me’ approach is optional.
In a society where pain and discomfort are feared and regarded as weakness or threat, addictions run rampant. The salmon doesn’t stop off for coffee in order to fuel the next leg of the journey. She swims and keeps swimming. The chick does not take an analgesic because his head hurts from all that pecking.
Pain just IS. But you do not need to suffer and keel over from heartache, fatigue or anguish. Nor are you required to instantly medicate with food for your guilt, or social media for your loneliness, or cigarettes for your despair.
Feel the pain to heal the pain.
Instead of pushing the hurt away, breathe it in. Sit in the discomfort for a moment, allow yourself to be curious and then receive the lesson that is being offered to you.
Medicating with chocolate, slot machines, marijuana, pornography or any other substance temporarily deadens the agitation. The trigger, the root sensation, will be there waiting for you when the orgasm wears off.
Inquiry
Are you using coping mechanisms or addictions to get through? What are you running from? Is there pain in your life that can be converted, shifted or healed? Is it time to seek assistance in reclaiming your power from addiction?
Transformation of any kind hurts. A chick having to peck its way out of its ovoid jail is a harsh initiation into the three dimensional world. Salmon battle savage currents while swimming upstream in order to birth their offspring.
Suck it up, Nature says, and know that the toiling leads to eventual reward. Pain is written into the system. But suffering, the ‘poor me, woe is me’ approach is optional.
In a society where pain and discomfort are feared and regarded as weakness or threat, addictions run rampant. The salmon doesn’t stop off for coffee in order to fuel the next leg of the journey. She swims and keeps swimming. The chick does not take an analgesic because his head hurts from all that pecking.
Pain just IS. But you do not need to suffer and keel over from heartache, fatigue or anguish. Nor are you required to instantly medicate with food for your guilt, or social media for your loneliness, or cigarettes for your despair.
Feel the pain to heal the pain.
Instead of pushing the hurt away, breathe it in. Sit in the discomfort for a moment, allow yourself to be curious and then receive the lesson that is being offered to you.
Medicating with chocolate, slot machines, marijuana, pornography or any other substance temporarily deadens the agitation. The trigger, the root sensation, will be there waiting for you when the orgasm wears off.
Inquiry
Are you using coping mechanisms or addictions to get through? What are you running from? Is there pain in your life that can be converted, shifted or healed? Is it time to seek assistance in reclaiming your power from addiction?
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