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Introduction
Article: The Value of Sitting with Pain
Workshop on June 7th from noon to 6 PM
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June is here! It’s nearly half way through the year and summer is starting to emerge. Is your year developing the way you want it to? Are you achieving your goals or on your way to achieving them, for this year? If life is coming together for you, then congratulate yourself and keep going. sometimes though we can use a little extra help and support to manifest abundance into our lives.
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*******Article: The Value of Sitting with Pain
One of the books I’m currently reading is Pema Chodron’s The Places that Scare You. Something that interested me is when she notes the necessity of feeling pain. I agree with her that feeling pain is a necessity. The reason I agree is because pain is a message, an indication of something that needs to be addressed. It seems to me that in many ways this culture attempts to encourage the ignoring of pain instead of sitting with it. Speaking only from my own experiences, I’ve many times tried to run away from pain instead of really face it.
It’s only been in recent years that I’ve started to change that behavior of running away. While I don’t necessarily welcome pain, I no longer try to avoid it or ignore it. Whether it’s emotional pain or physical pain, I’ve found that sitting with it helps a lot more because it allows me to not just feel the pain but also discover the message it has to offer me. When it’s physical pain, such as a headache for instance, it does hurt and it’s not fun to feel. By laying down and just being present with it, I can learn a lot. I can learn if the pain is from too much eyestrain or neck issue. I can also, by sitting with the pain, begin to actually redistribute the energy so that the pain lessens and eventually is healed. I can also then begin to work on the deeper sources of the pain, such as being present with my neck and working on feeling the pain and then dissolving it.
When it’s emotional pain (which sometimes can be linked to physical pain) it’s also important to just feel the pain and sit with it and really find out what you’re feeling. The first impulse is to re-act to the pain, but that impulse is really an attempt to avoid feeling it. Just stay calm…feel the pain, relax into it, and listen to the message it has to offer. Figure out what the source of pain really is, and then act on it, but not before.
When we feel pain, we need to accept it in order to move beyond it. While taking a pain killer might alleviate the obvious symptoms of pain, it doesn’t let us discover the source of it, which is important to really allow healing to occur. Sitting with pain can be a scary experience…it can put us in touch with our mortality, with the fear of being vulnerable or hurt, but sitting with pain can also empower us because it allows us to communicate with the body, instead of trying to control it. In that act of communication, we show the body that we are willing to listen, willing to change, willing to learn…the same is true with the emotional pain we feel. Communicate with it, discover the source of it, and work with it, instead of trying to repress it. When you can do that, you will really have created a cooperative effort with your body.
****Workshop June 7th noon-6pm
June 7th, 2008 from Noon to 6pm
Come to The Guiding Tree at 4831 SE Division St, Portland OR 97206 for the follow workshops offered by author, innovator, and life coach, Taylor Ellwood:
Body Consciousness: A new paradigm for embracing your body and living your life
In this interactive workshop, we will combine reflective internal meditation with breathing practices and path working techniques that will leave you feeling connected to your body and revitalized in how you live your life. If you
