I have been actively involved in emotional healing for over 10 years and have learned a huge amount during that time which remains mostly unknown in our world and yet which is essential for us to understand. Emotions make up roughly around 50% of our experience and yet probably make up less than 5% of our focus - in other words, we are in huge emotional denial. Today I want to explain how one simple thought could make us ill or kill us.
Pain is a feeling that stops us in our tracks. Pain can be so overpowering that we literally collapse and have no choice but to take action to stop it. Contrary to popular opinion though, pain is not something to be blocked out - rather it must be learned from.
Pain is only a message within us that our personal limits have been exceeded - it is nothing more. If we do not know when our limits are being exceeded, then we have a huge problem. If, for example, I don't know that my hand is on a hot stove, then I may be damaged beyond repair in just a few moments... Pain is the safety mechanism that keeps me alive in that sense.
The main problem with pain arises when we don't know it's cause or what to do to stop it. The main way we have of understanding pain is to feel into it and to enquire as to its origins. By feeling our real feelings, rather than blocking them out, we stand the best chance of understanding them and then allowing them to evolve. Next time you are in pain, instead of rejecting the pain, my suggestion is to consciously feel into it and send it loving acceptance - the pain is part of you that is hurting and you need to care for yourself, not reject yourself! I have had experiences where extreme pain ended in 1 second after I sent love to the area internally. Think about how much money 'painkillers' generate for business owners, when in truth the most effective way to end pain is totally free and works far more effectively!
A Common Mistake that Can Kill
There is a common pattern I have found over the years in the way consciousness and our minds work... We might create a thought pattern or decision in one moment that has nuances and fine details, but which over time gets degraded and changed - so that what once seemed like a good idea, now becomes a problem.
It is quite logical to decide that 'I don't want to feel pain', but how we actually achieve the goal of 'no pain' can make the difference between life and death. If we avoid or block out our pain then we become disconnected from our body and from reality, whereas if we accept the pain and learn from it, we can change our reality for the better by making better choices. If I decide that 'I don't want to feel pain', I could either just block the pain out by not feeling into it or I could add the extra logic into my thought that says:
'I don't want to feel pain, so I will make sure I always feel it and do what is needed to stop it's cause and stop it's message needing to be present in me'.
Imagine a pain in your abdomen that never ends. If you just block it out, you may never learn what the cause was or that you needed to perform an extended fast and cholonic irrigation to help your body clear itself out. Over time, this failure to act might result in ever more damage being done to your digestive system and then maybe surgery or severe illness. Just by feeling the pain, you might be able to change important processes in your body/mind and/or also take steps to clear the blockage (meaning no need for further pain or illness).
Realisations about pain
The key to note here is that I am describing the difference between consciousness and a lack of consciousness.
Since pain is actually a message for us to learn from that keeps us safe, it is actually a form of love! The thing that causes the pain may be and feel unloving, but the pain itself is essentially our message from loving consciousness that says that we are out of balance and the pain is a reflection of how far part of us has come from receiving the full love that it needs. By us being aware of this gap, we experience a relative measurement of love which is itself loving IF we pay attention!
So now my thought is more like: "I need pain and welcome its voice in me to let me know what needs to change" - I feel better already! ;)
Wishing you well,
Ura Soul
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