It’s refreshing to realize that I can be in pain and still love my life. I can still be really happy while carrying a stone of hurt.
It’s refreshing to know that I can feel pain and not make it mean one negative thing about me or my future, that I don’t have to go down that route of default thinking. I can shut down the thoughts that steal my power, moment by moment, and in doing so, build the muscle for creating only empowering stories about me and about my life.
And it’s refreshing to know that I can be in pain, and not be at the effect of it, not be its victim. That instead of the experience of just sitting there enduring it, idly waiting for it to pass, I can study it. I can bring wonder and inquiry to it, and utilize it. Let it be useful to me. Let it be a portal into healing rather than something that takes me out. I can become interested in what there is to discover in it, what gifts are embedded in its folds for me (and there are gifts — to the willing student). Point is, as a human being I can have my default ways or I can access a whole range of other approaches and responses that would open me and deepen me and cause me to become a bigger human being than I ever knew myself to be before the pain.
Just thought you’d like to know…
Refreshed,
Lyss
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