Healing - "Meditations For People Who Do Too Much"

Frequently, as children, we have experiences that we simply aren't strong enough to handle without a lot of support and help. If we didn't receive that support when needed, a common reaction is to stuff those feelings and refuse them the attention they need. This reading from "Meditations For People Who Do Too Much" (May 25) tells us that our bodies are incredible machines and they will hold onto those feelings until we've developed the strength and maturity to handle them with care.

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Meditations for people who do too much.

Healing.

The human heart does not stay away too long from that which hurt it most.

There is a return journey to anguish that few of us are released from making.

From Lillian Smith.

Those hurts and pains that we experience in childhood don't just magically evaporate as we grow older.

They rumble around in us.

And when we have reached a level of strength,

Maturity,

Insight,

And awareness to handle them,

They come up to be worked on.

This is one of the ways our inner being is loving to us.

It gives us every opportunity to heal the hurts that we need to heal.

And it gives us that opportunity when we are strong enough to handle it.

Frequently,

As children,

We have experiences that we simply aren't strong enough to handle without a lot of support and help.

And often that support is absent.

So we push them down and we wait.

When we are ready,

They come back up.

This gives us the chance to work through these old anguishes when we have what we need for this task.

When I am ready,

I will have the opportunity to make these journeys of old hurts with the knowledge that I can heal them and move on.