Meditations For Chronic Pain And Terminal Illness: Bonus Track - Living the Questions

Upon the request of a student who was recently detected with stage 4 cancer, Jay created this series for anyone dealing with terminal illness or chronic pain. Pain is inevitable in life. Suffering is optional. This is the final day of a 7 day series that incorporated a series of guided imagery to decouple the pain from suffering. Today's sesion is a bonus track; a spoken word reflection designed to enable some consolation, relief and assist in healing the body.

Transcript

As humans we crave certainty,

Security.

We want to know why did this happen?

Will I be okay?

What if there are no answers and no certainty to be found?

What if we can't know?

Does that mean peace of mind and heart are no longer possible?

By letting go of what we thought we knew,

We just might be able to open ourselves to finding love,

Support,

Meaning and even magic in the least likely of places.

A deeper peace may be found in living the questions rather than clinging on to our old certainty.

We can move forward with the curiosity of the explorer,

Charting new waters,

Making new discoveries about who we are and what we are connected to,

Releasing our need for immediate answers.

A deeper peace may be found in living the questions rather than clinging on to your old certainty.

Your body is unwell and in pain,

That's the truth.

But you know what?

It's only one truth of many truths.

Can we each keep our eyes and hearts open to recognizing other truths when the old ones just aren't enough anymore?

What if there is a deeper peace to be found in living the questions,

To accepting ourselves,

Our lives and our responses to life as it is,

Moment to moment,

Unfixed,

Ever evolving?

Can we move forward with more fascination than fear,

With more curiosity than certainty?

Perhaps then we can all walk each other home,

Someday into the answer.

Thank you.

Reviews

This is utterly beautiful. Experience of unity comes and goes. My body is very sick. Inflamed. The brain also. I feel terrible shame at my reactivity. And yet... Here is a sweeping moment. A clean moment. Unconditional. It is not any narrative. It is alive. Thankyou

So profound for being such a short meditation (like all from this series)! I saved all of these a long time ago, and somehow missed this one. This morning, I discovered it while searching my bookmarks, and it was just what I needed. Thank you 🙏

Beautiful and profound- and loved the last sentence! Thank you!

Thank you for your wisdom and profound empathy- it sounds like you speak from your own personal experience, you really get it and that's not an easy type of pain meditation coach to find!! Thank you thank you thank you

Living a life with chronic pain is still a joy! when focus is on all the myriad of wonderful things in this world. Thank you for sharing this series 😊

Thank you - I found this useful🙏

I live with chronic pain and illness. It has been a difficult year and a defeating day. This series helped by offering me some solace. I look forward to hearing some longer talks and meditations from you. Your words and rhythm are compassionate and soothing but also offer me some much needed structure. Thank you so much!

Thank you so much. I needed that so much just now.

Short and powerful.

Absolutely stunning. Beautiful, tender, reassuring voice. A gentle companion holding light when we are in darkness. Wish it was longer:). Thank you for this series.

Beautiful. Thank you for this series.

Excellent. Thank you very much.

Thank you for helping me cope :)

Don't have illness but this was great on different levels . Thank you

Thanks again for giving me such wonderful things to think about

Need to practice accepting my chronic pain. Not easy when it's always there. Thank u.

Thank you so much!

Thank you for this. I am really struggling with this acceptance of the now at the moment..... I need to stop fighting and being afraid and let it just be.

So simple but profoundly honest and true. Karen

Thank you so much for this wonderful bonus gift. 🌷🌷🌷