Emotional Pain
Our wounds are often the openings into the best and most beautiful part of us.
- QUESTION?
How shall I attain Eternal Life?
Eternal Life is now. Come into the present.
But I am in the present now, am I not?
“No.”
“Why not?”
“Because you haven’t dropped your past.”
The past is to be dropped not because it is bad but because it is dead
The past is an illusion because it does not exist here and now. From your present moment experience, what remains is a faint memory owing to the passage of time.
Suffering is eased when you reconnect to this moment and honour it as a cherished gift. Through your present awareness, you minimise the intensity of painful memories and expand your appreciation of what exists.
As you cast your attention back to the present moment, earlier memories diminish through a change in awareness.
Memories have an emotional relationship to thoughts and with enough intensity grow stronger neural networks in the brain.
Processing an emotion entails perceiving it, acknowledging it, being with it, and then letting the wave move through the body. Whilst it may be obvious, the path to healing takes place when you cease to identify with the pain of the past. In doing so, you invite the healing power of love to preside over your life.
Freedom is attained when you write a new script. This new story does not extinguish your memories, it creates an empowering relationship connecting the past to the present, so peace, love and healing emerge.
To heal emotional wounds requires courage to confront the pain. Your felt sense of connection to your inner spirit is far more resilient than you imagine. You can create a new script by directing forgiveness and peace to the past.
In that moment, healing ten years of pain because you have decided u no longer willing to stay captive to the emotional wounds.
Drop The Past
Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.
Is it conceivable that what took place five, or twenty years ago is subjective to your perception of it?
Perhaps you formed an unfair portrayal of events and have carried that story with you, much to your disappointment. For those having endured mental, emotional or physical trauma the pain is undoubtedly real. However, if you wish to heal your pain-story something must give way, otherwise you become enslaved to the past.
Your Inner peace is fundamental to your happiness. Anger, blame, frustration and love cannot reside in the same place and this will not help to heal the pain. One must recede to give way to the other.
When you want to get rid of misery rather than see how it works with joy. The point isn’t to cultivate one thing as opposed to another, but to relate properly to where we are. So, pain invites you to heal emotional conflicts by directing your attention towards peace and love.
Choice is powerful because it invites you to rewrite the past with tenderness and compassion. You create a compelling future, instead of being dictated by untoward events of the past.
Don’t let go of my thoughts — meet them with understanding. They would let go of you when you do this.
Pain allows you to be shaped by your experiences than be defined by them. To hold on to pain distorts your known sense of self, you are caught up in a false impression of who you think you are. However well-meaning your intentions, the façade is a self-constructed image which serves to protect you.
Whilst they shape you, they do not define you anymore than suggesting a person’s past performance dictates their future achievements.
- Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.
I would advice here that you to drop the past because it is dead and ought to remain behind you.
CONCLUSION:
- To live a remarkable life, it is vital to take consistent action in spite of your fears and doubts.