Good Morning Everyone! I haven’t written in awhile and I apologize in advance for the serious topic of today. I don’t often like to talk about my fears and greatest worries in life, mostly because I’m ashamed or afraid that if I put them out into the Universe they will in fact come true. Despite that, I also know that if we numb our true feelings, emotions, worries, fears, and trials in life, they can fester and cause disease and pain to our physical body. Do you ever go to the Doctor seeking answers for that nagging pain thats been in your body for years on end, only to have the Doctor tell you that everything looks great. They often refer to this as Idiopathic, which basically means they haven’t got a clue; that there’s no clear origin for your pain. This can be even more frustrating, not knowing, and in these cases all hope may seem lost. I was telling someone the other day that I have a pretty moderate and balanced life, that once one bad thing happens it is immediately replaced by something good. For instance, last night I went on a long run and was given relief from my aching hands because of the glorious distraction! This makes me wonder if my hands hurt so bad sometimes because I focus on the pain. Some days pain can take us to a dark place, especially when we feel like there’s no hope at the end of the road. I found myself wishing I could drive to the beach where I could dance in the waves and forget; there I could bask in the light that brings with it a sense of forever Peace… the kind that comes when you have “arrived.” When you no longer have to struggle from physical and emotional pain, heartache, loss, failure, worry, regret… It seems like it’s always been this way, from the moment I took my first piano lesson, struggling to find my runners stride, to the present moment when I finally feel a reprieve from financial burden and replace it instead with a decline in health. Ever since I was born into this beautiful world I’ve struggled just to be Average, and even then barely making the cut. I’ve wasted a lot of years trying to dig myself out of holes I had dug myself, only to find myself neck deep yet again. How can I walk that line of perfect symmetry and balance; the line that brings with it that feeling of complete forever peace…
That’s when I remembered this meditation that was shown to me once, that I wanted to share with all of you. I want you to take whatever physical pain you have in your body right now and put a picture with that feeling. Turn your pain into something you can see and touch. Now, what’s the first thing that comes to mind when you feel that particular pain. Do you feel anger, fear, worry, frustration… Does a certain memory or moment in time come to your mind. Does the feeling take you somewhere positive or negative. I think I know what most of you answered to whether or not it makes us feel positive or negative. Obviously pain is no fun and in some cases can be debilitating to the point where you can’t feel anything except pain. I want you to try for a moment to close your eyes and send love to that place on your body that is experiencing pain; send care, compassion, good intentions and hope. I believe in the power of positive thinking, and I believe that it has the power to heal us. Our Mind is a powerful part of our Being and has the power to keep us alive. Just like our physical health, our mind has the power to produce thoughts that can heal or harm us. What is the primary thought you experience on a daily basis… the primary emotion… How does this affect your physical Being. When I’m in pain, I think the primary emotion I feel is fear. Fear is a very powerful emotion that was instilled in us at birth as a survival mechanism; but it can often have the opposite affect if we let fear take control of our lives. Fear is a funny thing, its one of the most intense emotions, and one which we, as humans, tend to focus on. But fear is often times a product of our imagination, something which doesn’t affect us in the present moment, but we choose to dwell on it because it could happen in the future. While we’re predicting the worst for our future, we often times bring that fear to life purely by focusing on it: "what we focus on expands.” I know its hard to think about anything else when we’re in pain, but I do believe that we can find some relief through the power of positive thinking and through the power that comes from the love and support that surrounds us ❤️
"Embrace love, Embrace loss, embrace the afterglow of how it felt... Don't be afraid to care, to love, to lose someone. Through these feelings we find our strength! Immerse yourself fully into these feelings, which are wholly human and absolutely beautiful"✨️
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