Standing Still with our Pain

When we are down and out, feeling lowly and unworthy, it's time to get busy working on unleashing our mind power.

Great opportunities are always present when we find ourselves in unpleasant situations. We have to trust ourselves enough not to run away from what's happening in our lives.

Many of us have been taught to run away from what's happening to us. Yet, if we really think about it, sometimes it's not good for us to move forward too quickly.

Although many people subscribe to "let's move on" and not dwell on what's happening in our lives, some of us subscribe to different ways of going beyond our problems.

In this age of enlightened minds, some of us sit still (reflective meditation) with our problems. We sit and feel all the pain, the sharp points piercing our minds with doubts and fears.

Then we suck up the pain with our thoughts until we gain the clarity to understand that our problems are nothing more than the illusions we have created from our own beliefs and values about ourselves and the outside world.

Whenever we feel the pain, really feel the pain, and not run away from it, we begin to trust our minds to guide us. And with this newfound trust comes the awareness that it's our mind filled with beliefs and values distorting how we perceive ourselves and the outside world.

This awareness of being is our epiphany, our freedom.


Similarly, when we reach the point of clarity where we clearly see and understand we are responsible for creating the illusions, we also know that we are doing this with our own beliefs and values.

These are the beliefs and values embodied and embedded in our minds as the truth about ourselves and the outside world. And without hestitation, we will defend them fearlessly and dare anyone to question them.

Meanwhile, as we continue to live our lives in the cesspool of tainted visions, we tend to forget that we're caught up in the mind games of being what others want us to be. Somehow our lives and dreams merged with the world's dreams, and we lost the power to find ourselves.

Everytime something happens in our lives and we don't know what to do, we take our beliefs and values and run as fast as we can to the comforts of world opinion. And as we speed forward, we leave behind  the footprints of failed dreams, which become our regrets. 

Unfortunately, each time we have the opportunity to understand our problems, to learn something from our unpleasant experiences, we turn away from the source of our power and seek succor from the toxic beliefs and values. 

It's important for us to be mindful that whenever we move too quickly from our pain, we will regret our decisions and begin wishing we had acted thus and so. That's when our regrets inextricably bind us to our habitual behavior of running away from our problems. This darkness tricks our minds into believing our habits are responsible for our beliefs and values.

So whenever we do things that we later regret, we try to change our habits, not the beliefs and values responsible for them. It seems easier to work on anger, addiction, greed, envy, jealousy, and so on, rather than understand how we developed our minds from beliefs and values taught us by society, parents, and life experiences. 

Nevertheless, we continue to use the same beliefs and values to enlighten our minds. In other words, whenever we encounter great problems in our lives, we turn to what we have been taught by others for our solutions. Many of us are too afraid to turn to ourselves for the answers, because we doubt our powers to know something the world hasn't taught us.

Meanwhile, the recognition by us that all power comes from our minds is the starting point for understanding what's in our minds and how it got there. In other words, what are our beliefs and values? Where did they come from?

These are the questions that move us slowly, but clearly, to the deeper parts of our minds where we discover our inner power or unconditioned consciousness -- the part of our minds that remains free of toxicity.

This is the perspicuity we need to understand our regrets and why we're so anxious to move on before taking the time to understand what's there in our lives.