Dwelling on Discomfort

Pain is inevitable.  Suffering is optional. M. Kathleen Casey

Pain is an interesting phenomenon. I would venture to say it is inevitable depending on your scope of perspective. For example, to draw a parallel from weight training, it can be reframed. Just as in exercise physical pain can be a sign that you are ‘working it,’ emotional pain can be a sign that you are in the arena of ‘working possibility.’

Most of the time what is really painful is the insistence on dwelling on the discomfort, aka as suffering. Suffering most often is a result of not seeing what’s true about a situation, it is a steadfast persistence in the external form of how you want to experience something. This focus on external surface vision is an ingrained habit and can easily be addressed by expanding your inner vision. It’s not that you are wrong or stubborn, it’s that your vision is not clear. Once you can see, it is effortless to move with the energy of what is and also surf the energy of what wants to be.

So . . . the first step in moving beyond discomfort is the willingness to see and sense what’s true. Willingness is an essential ingredient to movement and a key to breakthrough potential.

Today just tune into your willingness factor. Notice how many ways you can view the same circumstance. How many streams can you experience? None of them are right or wrong, they are just different streams. Tune in a little more and notice the sparkle of possibility dancing along each one of those streams. You’ll see how much more fluid you become when you are willing to broaden the bandwidth of your perception.

Tags: Awareness, Emotions