Turning our pain and discomfort into a gateway back to ourselves and our truth.

We are aware of our surroundings more than we may consciously perceive.

It is the way we are structured to have the ability to adequality respond to what is happening, to best survive and thrive. And it is also the way we are connected to people and are held with their intentions and support.

But when what we unknowingly perceive is touching old fears, traumas, or wounds, we may be then feeling unexplained emotions of anxiety, bad moods, and other intense reactions. We may be having pains and aches and physical discomfort that we cannot explain.

These agonizing responses can be turned around and be used to expand our awareness, learn how to connect to our strengths and embrace what we feel. Letting it become an asset rather than a weakness.

For example: Sometimes, when you are suffering from a headache or a migraine, it may be a response to a situation you are afraid to confront. You may have been perceiving something that was hurtful or angering, but immediately have turned yourself off as a protective response. Your conscious mind had a different story completely about what is happening. It may have tried to downplay what you “saw” to protect you from feeling the discomfort.

You blocking what you sensed and felt was what knocked you out….

You actually turned off your anger and need to refuse. You suffocated your hurt and disappointment. You bottled up the response that was there and the energy that wanted to be free and actualized.

It may well have been that needing to avoid your anger or fighting with your hurt, was a survival mechanism in the past.

It may have been because trying to refuse or confront was too dangerous, too frightening, too risky, and not even in your world as a child. The price you may have had to pay was too high, so you had to learn and “deal with it”. You had to suffocate it in you. “This it is” is what we think as children when our world is only as big as the people and situations we see.

This was the price you had to pay to have connection, love, and support - or the hope for it. And thus, when there was no other way out, the best way was to knock yourself out…

Learning to use those distresses today, will allow us to undo the old fears of our past that still unknowingly shape us today.

This distress wants us to find more ease and freedom in our life. They ask us to feel and face ourselves and life, despite the old fears (and shame) that may be provoked in us.

When we dare to feel, we take our power back. We shed off the compromised parts.

When we choose to take the path of re-training ourselves to use all of our perceptions and to move towards larger learning and expansion into who we are and what life can give us, we will always move through challenging times, that we may not enjoy.

This choice enables us to find the strength to meet the uncomfortable.

It gives us the magic wand of perception, choice, and freedom. It helps us to move through difficult moments without getting stuck in them or keep running away from them.

Take some time to feel the area in your body that signals suffering/knocking out the most.

Breathe deeply and try to learn what you tend to hold and do in that area.

Try to stay with it. Listen to it.

Breathe and follow it no matter how much fear may arise. You want the fear to flow and wash over you to meet new.

The fearfulness is rooted in an old experience of feeling helpless or a victim. Your mind would want you never to go back there, so it asks you to run away from it. But then again it keeps you trapped and “amputated”.

When you stay with it, let it be. Make sure you stay engaged. Breathe and try to find movements in that state.

Give it time, stay there so it can “open your eyes”.

It will ask you to stop rejecting parts of yourself.

It will ask you to speak your truth.

It will make you more whole.

Yours

Anna

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