Today we're going to talk about unraveling our tangled pain.
Often when we are in pain or we feel shame or guilt,
Responsibility or duty,
This can lead to resentment and this can cause stress,
Anxiety and arguments with those that we love and people that we work with.
One of my favorite sayings is Namo Gonshiyin In Sha.
And I may not be saying that correctly,
But it is a Tibetan saying,
A Buddhist saying for with her kindness,
Compassion and generosity,
She responds to the needs of those who appeal for her help.
When we have pain,
Shame,
Anxiety,
We're hurt,
Upset,
Angry or mad,
Frustrated,
We can become so entangled with the observation of that feeling and emotion.
And when we are on a spiritual path,
We want to push it away.
We want to push it back.
I learned this very important lesson from a class I had with Suzy Lula.
You can look her up at suzylula.
Com.
And so to pay homage to that lesson that we all have learned tonight,
That within that entangled,
Knotted emotion that we are ashamed of because we are supposed to be spiritual,
We're not supposed to have anger,
Frustration.
But within that cradles your awareness,
Your enlightenment,
Your resolution,
Your compassion,
Your forgiveness.
And so you do not want to ignore the humaneness where your soul resides.
You want to be with that emotion and that feeling you want to honor it,
You want to speak it,
You want to shout it out loud.
And you want to unravel so that you can find that nugget,
That golden nugget inside of enlightenment,
Empowerment,
Healing,
Forgiveness,
Compassion.
And so let's do a meditation now to honor what we may be ashamed of,
What we may be pushing away.
We want to consider this,
Acknowledge this to be our spiritual and a very important part of our spiritual journey.
So let's do a heart centered meditation and hold your hand on your heart and take deeper breaths than you normally would.
Five seconds in,
Five seconds out.
And I want you to think of a time,
A place,
A person,
A thing,
A kitty cat,
An animal,
A memory,
Anything that brings you joy,
Peace,
Love,
Excitement,
Fun.
And I want you to think of it,
But mostly I want you to hone in the emotion of joy,
Peace,
Love,
Excitement,
Fun.
While you're breathing deeper than you normally would breathe in four,
Three,
Two,
One out four,
Three,
Two,
One.
Continue to breathe deeply with your hand on your heart and that wonderful,
Loving,
Beautiful,
Happy feeling.
I acknowledge my shame,
My pain,
My anger,
My frustration,
My short tempered,
My aggression,
My sadness,
My victimhood.
I acknowledge this.
It does not emasculate me.
It does not weaken me.
It does not make me too feminine or too sensitive.
It does not make me spineless or timid or cowardly or fearful.
It is actually a youthful childlike,
Mature,
At the same time,
Way of feeling.
It's fresh.
And I am willing to untangle that.
I am willing to look deep within that,
Unravel it and find that nugget,
That heart center in which pulses my liberation of my soul,
My enlightenment,
My empowerment,
My spirituality,
Where my healing resides.
I don't want to push it away,
Ignore it,
Shove it into a corner.
I don't want to keep it balled up tight.
I want to unravel it.
I want to embrace it.
I want to let it free.
And I acknowledge this to the people that I love and people that reside within me,
Beside me,
Along with me.
I am human.
I'm allowed to be vulnerable.
My vulnerability frees others to be vulnerable as well.
I honor the entanglement that I have with my emotions and my feelings.
I am familiar with it and I love it and I embrace it and I'm willing for it to untangle naturally.
It will untangle itself naturally just by my acknowledgement,
My acceptance,
My loving compassion towards those painful feelings because I am love.
I am compassion.
Breathe in 4,
3,
2,
1,
Breathe out 4,
3,
2,
1.
Remember a feeling,
A person,
A thought,
An animal,
A pet,
A memory.
Even take a look at a beautiful favorite dessert of yours or a gorgeous flower and just feel that warmth,
That love,
The beauty.
Feel the happiness around it as you breathe in slowly,
Breathe out slowly and you concentrate on your heart center.
Let the entanglement and the detanglement and the unraveling begin.
