Healing yourself doesn’t need to be so painful.
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Healing yourself doesn’t need to be so painful.
- Healing trauma involves recognizing, accepting, and moving through pain—clean pain. It often means facing what you don’t want to face—what you have been reflexively avoiding or fleeing. By walking into that pain, experiencing it fully, and moving through it, you metabolize it and put an end to it. In the process, you also grow, create more room in ... See more
from Choosing to Face Our Pain
john silkey added
- "If you are injured and in pain, the path to mental peace can be traversed in a single step: Simply accept the pain as it arises, while doing whatever you need to do to help your body heal. If you are anxious before giving a speech, become willing to feel the anxiety fully, so that it becomes a meaningless pattern of energy in your mind and body. E... See more
from Waking Up: A Guide to Spirituality Without Religion by Sam Harriss
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I came to understand the deep truth that, while my pain may be unavoidable, suffering is largely optional…Pain can make you thoroughly miserable, or pain can just be pain. The trick, I’ve realized, is to confine it to the body and not let it infect the mind.”
from Find a Point! by private-content
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You need time to heal. There is a hurt that has been in your body for a long time. It keeps you from connecting fully with your core essence. These patterns come from a deep wound you carry that needs your full attention.
from The Burnout Antidote by Anne Berube
juarry added
- And when I practice letting go of how I think things are supposed to look and instead cultivate a trust in the unfolding that is taking place, often in unseen ways, the Here-ness of challenge or pain or depression or grief or (anything) softens even 5%, and that 5% adds up fast when I don’t assume it’s nothing.
from To move toward fully living
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- Next, identify what healing means to you, what it feels like within you. I believe healing is the victory that actually moves us beyond oppression. And that healing isn’t a fixed state, but rather an embodied state that is cultivated with ongoing practice.
from Murmurations: Returning to the Whole by Adrienne Maree Brown
Stuart Evans added