By Nira Lall
Guest Writer for Wake Up World
Illuminating our life’s purpose and living the reality of who we really are is a beautiful, freeing concept. Many of us devour personal development books, articles and podcasts to help us stay grounded in the knowing that we are powerful creators. In reality, getting and staying on this path can be overwhelming, dark, and at times miserable. It’s important to acknowledge and embrace the darker aspects of our experience, including our pain, as a vehicle for learning and deeper understanding.
This “pain” can show up as sorrow, despair, feeling stuck, need for control, anger, perfectionism, the voice of our inner critic, physical ailments, our wounded child self, and so one. There are countless faces of pain in our lives and it’s important to get intimate with all of them.As a culture and within the pop psychology movement we often deem our pain as bad, which is just another act of chipping away at our personal self-worth. Making any part of oneself “bad” can be felt as an act of deep betrayal by the psyche.
This article is not a call for us to live in our pain for a prolonged period of time...
Comments
Real Pain is not a joke!
People tend to take other peoples pain as some kind of joke. All I can say is, After 15 years of agonizing pain from a massive stroke that caused nerve damage from my shoulder to my finger tips and toes on my left side, I do not want to live with this another day! The pain is so intense at times, it makes me cry out! and I am a person who has always been bragged about since childhood for not being cowardly. I KNOW pain. I have had over twenty surgeries through my life. I'm tired of it. I have heard all of the stories about why we have pain. None of the so called experts on the subject have gone through what I have. You all think it is a fun game or something. When it's your turn, then tell me about how good it is ad how you go about handling it! Until then, stop making other people even more miserable than they already are. It's cruel, It definitely is NOT^ love!