Stop Numbing ➞ Start Getting To The Bottom Of Your Feelings

We all love a good quick fix, don’t we?

Thanks to our instant modern world that has provided us with everything except the proper tools to heal our soul, mind and heart.
Numbing things out is all too easy, and we’ve all done it at one time or another. However, it can become a problem when it slowly becomes a way of life. I mean sure, comfort food is comforting af when you take it, but it’s not a magic eraser. Tomorrow, the very problem that made you jump toward food to ease the pain will still be there.

You can’t change what you don’t acknowledge.

Something that comes up into your life demands your attention. It demands you to address it. And the first step in doing so is not by finding a temporary relief that makes you push back the issue. It’s to find the root cause as to why you are reaching for comfort food in the first place. Food is one example, but drugs, love, sex, shopping, only to name a few, all make it to the list.

Dealing with the hard stuff is hard, but it’s also the only way to grow as a human being.

You can’t grow if you escape from processing the pain.

Because that’s what life battles are for.
They are meant to make you strengthen your resilience, reevaluate who you are, and heal in order to get to the next layer of your own growth.
And once each of these layers have been uncovered, that’s when your own journey on here will end.

Next time something happens to you, rather than numbing the conflicting emotions you feel, take the time to dig deep inside of yourself and ask yourself what this particular situation wants you to change about the way you do things. The more familiar you become with what’s painful, the more you will grow. Sitting with your pain can be incredibly hard, but your creator gave you the spirit of a warrior. You can do so much more than you give yourself the credit for.
Remember that the more you numb things out, the stronger the boomerang effect will be next time these things come around to the surface.