New Pains, Old Roots

The current pain is not the real pain. It is an incarnation of a bigger source with a rope ladder hooked to it that travels back through time to its original place. Be willing to feel your way back and look at what you haven’t wanted to look at. It takes on the form of a sinister lie. “I’m not good enough”…”I’m unwanted”…”I don’t belong”…”I’m all alone”…”they wouldn’t love me if they only knew me”…like that…Disfiguring narratives that run a toxic current throughout your life, ever-prompting you to either sabotage things to affirm their accuracy or exhaust yourself overcompensating to prove they’re dead wrong. Either way, they’re running you (ragged at that). Dig them up from their bedrock and deconstruct their programming by holding them up to the light and seeing them for what they are. Lies. Then acknowledge that YOU are the one still carrying them around, permitting them to steal your vitality and joy, and strip your ability to be present to what’s actually happening (versus experiencing the present as a trigger from something in the past). Feel how their energy feels in your body then give them love and release that energy — by moving, meditating, jumping vigorously, dancing, journaling, creating, communicating, visualizing, whatever feels good and right to you. Howl if you have to – just move it as it comes. All energy wants to flow through and out of you. As you do this, your current pain will simmer and you’ll gain back the power to deal with the circumstances that incited it. Have at it, self-healers!screen shot 2019-01-13 at 6.36.11 pm

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