Stay still in the eye of the storm – pause. When the body is in pain or distress, the world implodes; it becomes small. The range of experience shrinks to the limits of one’s physique.
This artificial reduction of life often prepares us for a large opening that follows the pain like exhalation follows inhalation.
Physical pain is often rooted in unresolved emotions. The reduction makes it easier for us to surrender to life, accept what cannot be changed, and feel (and then let go) what we have been trying to suppress for some time.
Pain acts as a magnifying glass: magnifying, clarifying, making visible.
To rest with the pain, feel it, and let go of the causative emotions brings us completely into the physical life experience, the body with its laws, the psyche with its mechanics, and the soul laughs.
The soul understands that the physical experience that connects us more strongly to the field of the earth ultimately expands the soul.
This does not have to be done through physical pain or illness: we can voluntarily connect with the realms of nature and expand in joy and serenity– however, pain is an often chosen path as pain is a powerful catalyst.
Those who allow themselves to feel the pain, to accept it as part of life, will find it easy just to let minor annoyances be there because they have developed equanimity, becoming neutral in the world.
The acceptance of physical pain and physical distress is the supreme discipline of the incarnation process as an individual experience. The soul draws more integration, breadth, compassion, and understanding from these experiences.
In this strong attachment to the planet, where the body surrenders in disease as part of humanity, the power and weight of life become palpable.
A soul without the weight of experience roams the planet as a light breeze and soon forgets that it was here at all.
A soul with rich experience, great weight, a deep understanding of life, and how to fully incarnate and be fully absorbed in ecstatic subtlety will move mountains.
Never despair because you are in pain. Instead, breathe, surrender and trust.
You will gain the density of a diamond emerging from the depths of the earth, in infinite beauty, into the sunlight.