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Help For The Broken Hearted
A wide angle view of spiritual pain, emotional suffering and loss. How to accept all of it.
When someone accepts a change that they really don’t want, it doesn’t alter the fact that the emotional pain of a situation can have a life of its own, and so a person may continue to suffer greatly for a long time, depending on their sensitivity and disposition.
People can remain broken-hearted for years on end, longing for someone or something that can never be. They can live out their misery in private or in public, or, they can pretend they don’t want what they do, and try and turn their back on it.
Hiding a Broken Heart
Some people decide to completely change their lifestyle, career, or where they live, or even the way they look, in order to ‘not recognize’ their broken heart, their feelings or their needs.
The trouble is, we are human, and, our true self keeps coming back — it’s that strong. As long as we can think and feel, we’re never going to be ‘free from desire’ or free of our natural dreaming and longing, no matter how much we try not to feel.
So we need to understand how to live with, and accept, pain, suffering and loss, whenever it comes to visit, and adapt to these situations. This may…