Pain

We try to avoid it.  We blame it for our discomfort.  We judge it as bad.  Yet, it is part of life.  Pain is supposed to be here.

When we are faced the uncomfortable, we know we need to change.  Too often we try to change the outside forces, instead of looking within to find freedom.

So, the pain keeps coming back again and again.  We keep making the same gaffes with our kids, with our spouse, with our boss.  We keep repeating patterns that hurt us.  We keep doing those very things that keep us from our goals. 

Why?

We are not looking within to resolve the pain of life.  We are not letting the pain pass through us.  We have underdeveloped coping skills.  We try to avoid the pain.  We try to ignore the pain.  We try to hide behind activities and escapes.

The next time you feel uncomfortable, no matter how big or small the situation, sit with the discomfort.  Just sit with it.  Don't talk to cover it up.  Don't get busy to cover it up. Don't pick up a device to cover it up.  Let the discomfort run its course through your life.

The incredible gifts you will receive from these moments of extreme dis-ease are peace and freedom.  In time, your life will feel immeasurably more blissful without repetitive patterns of unresolved pain.  You must feel the ache to be free from the ache.