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At times we find ourselves hurting but unable to let go of the comfort of routine. I like to remind myself that while initially, the change might be very painful, the alternative is continuous suffering🩸 • • • • • #art #illustration #quote #goth #gothic #gothgoth #circus #circuscirucs #circusart #dark #quotes #illustrationartists #darkart #blackart #lineart #gothicart #gothart #alternative #artist
instagram.comPain is supposed to warn you that you are going past yourself. Pain only continues if you continue to refuse its messages. However, by overriding or ignoring parts of yourself, many of you have created a long history of denial.
Ceanne DeRohan • Right Use of Will: Healing and Evolving the Emotional Body
Pain is a real feeling, but that feeling does not necessarily reflect real damage in the body. Further, although pain depends on brain activity for its existence, this does not mean you can simply think pain away or that pain is your fault. Unfortunately, the processes which create pain are mostly unconscious and outside your control.
Todd Hargrove • A Guide to Better Movement: The Science and Practice of Moving With More Skill and Less Pain
as if you were an artist of pain, feeling into pain’s texture, opening to feel its essence.
David Deida • Blue Truth: A Spiritual Guide to Life & Death and Love & Sex
Accept the pain, feel the pain📍
Freedom from pain comes from a level of acceptance where you don’t care if the pain is still there or not. You aren’t accepting in order to get rid of it – that’s not full acceptance.