clean42day
11-26-2008, 08:00 PM
The greatest service I can offer is....being willing to live through the pain I experience!
There are several ways to commit suicide. Some people actually do something to end their lives. Others take pieces of their lives and pieces of themselves and tuck them away. They live only a part of a life, with only a part of themselves, allowing the other parts to die off. Still others live in a state of numbness. They shield and protect themselves from feeling anything, believing they can avoid the onslaught of pain. All of those people are the walking dead! They try their best of act alive. They are not alive because they have yet to discover the blessing of pain.
To experience mental or emotional pain is actually a gift of life. At the core of your pain is an answer, possibly the very answer you have been seeking. We mistakenly believe that the path to a good life or a better life is to eliminate pain. Suicide is not the way out of pain! In fact, the most loving, alive and self-supporting thing we an do is to embrace our pain. Often this requires a skill we have not been taught. It requires that we remain present in the midst of a painful experience.
All forms of pain come to teach you. To strengthen you. To reveal some deeper understanding or your true identity. Moving through pain, you may find your true purpose. Often pain comes into your life to wake up the parts and pieces of you that are numb. Those parts that are fearfully dead. Doubtfully immobilized. You begin to pick up pieces and parts that you have tucked away. Staying present in the pain can often remind you that you really do want to live in a more loving, more honest, more fulfilling way. What a gift! What a blessing!
Until today, you may not have been aware of the benefits of painful experiences. Just for today, open your heart to be present in your own pain. When it seems as if the pain or the memory of the pain is more than you can handle, ask for it to present you with it's gifts.
Today I am devoted to remaining fully present and alive to my every thought and feeling!
Until Today – Iyanla Vanzant
There are several ways to commit suicide. Some people actually do something to end their lives. Others take pieces of their lives and pieces of themselves and tuck them away. They live only a part of a life, with only a part of themselves, allowing the other parts to die off. Still others live in a state of numbness. They shield and protect themselves from feeling anything, believing they can avoid the onslaught of pain. All of those people are the walking dead! They try their best of act alive. They are not alive because they have yet to discover the blessing of pain.
To experience mental or emotional pain is actually a gift of life. At the core of your pain is an answer, possibly the very answer you have been seeking. We mistakenly believe that the path to a good life or a better life is to eliminate pain. Suicide is not the way out of pain! In fact, the most loving, alive and self-supporting thing we an do is to embrace our pain. Often this requires a skill we have not been taught. It requires that we remain present in the midst of a painful experience.
All forms of pain come to teach you. To strengthen you. To reveal some deeper understanding or your true identity. Moving through pain, you may find your true purpose. Often pain comes into your life to wake up the parts and pieces of you that are numb. Those parts that are fearfully dead. Doubtfully immobilized. You begin to pick up pieces and parts that you have tucked away. Staying present in the pain can often remind you that you really do want to live in a more loving, more honest, more fulfilling way. What a gift! What a blessing!
Until today, you may not have been aware of the benefits of painful experiences. Just for today, open your heart to be present in your own pain. When it seems as if the pain or the memory of the pain is more than you can handle, ask for it to present you with it's gifts.
Today I am devoted to remaining fully present and alive to my every thought and feeling!
Until Today – Iyanla Vanzant