Pain

Pain. What IS pain, really? I am not only talking about physical pain, but the effects of pain that we feel inside.

I've made the mistake (and I'm sure lots of people) to think that pain is really torture. When we feel hurt (either physically, or emotionally), we can't stop thinking "how can I stop this?", "when is it going to be over?". At that moment, we feel so strongly the separation with the divine, and all we can ask is "oh God, HOW? WHEN?" But we are still all focused in the pain. We rarely get the courage to go outside ourselves and ask "Oh God, please help me get over this."

But we can view pain another way. It may be torture, yes, but it is also release. It is a warning. It is concentrated energy. It's the body telling us something is wrong. Sometimes we ignore it, and we keep on doing the same things that cause the pain. Sometimes we can start looking at pain as that warning sign that it is, and ask ourselves "what has caused this pain?" and try to backtrack to resolve it.

Everybody has a big heart; a huge heart in fact. A heart that is hidden behind mountains and mountains of pain. When is the time to let that heart out, let is consume the pain, and free itself? Why are we hiding our wonderful jewel behind all this dirt? We keep this jewel locked up as precious as it is, and lot letting it shine. Because the more we let it shine, the brighter it becomes, and it dismantles those mountains of pain.

Physical pain, emotion pain, they are similar. We can either choose to let the pain engulf us, or we can choose to open our hearts to it. Listen to the warnings that it represents, and face them. It's a growing experience.

As kids, we've all been put at ease from our parents when we got hurt. "Oh, where did you get hurt? Let me kiss it and it will be fine." But as grown-ups, we don't have that support anymore. We've been conditioned, though, since we were kids to _expect_ something external to heal us. We have becomes slaves of the duality of internal vs. external.

...And there is always time to reverse that. To become both the self, and the external world that protects us. It's time to "grow out of our skin", so to speak, and become something greater than ourselves. And the heart grows so effortlessly inside us, it's the only thing that can help us in those difficult times, the times of growth.

So, let our hearts lead us to expansion, to growing our experiences towards a different level. As kids we grew our body. As adults let's grow into higher dimensions, since that's the only way to help the body heal itself.