Allow The Pain to Swallow You Whole

So it does not break you

Your pain is not the problem — it is the alert you get to check the actual problem.

What is the reason so many of us run away from our emotional pain? It is too painful, so we don’t deal with it. We run far away from it, thinking it will somewhat magically go away. We use distractions to cope. We ignore and dismiss what we feel.

We all have our reasons for burying our pain, but it comes down to one thing. Fear. Fear of facing the truth of what we’ve done. Fear of facing our current reality.

We try to avoid emotional pain but we end up getting trapped in a cycle that actually ends up with us holding onto negative emotions for longer than necessary.

The wound is where the light enters you — Rumi.

We try to numb the pain with a new relationship. A glass of wine. Drugs. We isolate ourselves. But it doesn't help at all. It makes it worse.

But of course, we are human and we will do whatever possible to get rid of our pain. While we think we’re minimizing the pain with our behavior, we’re really only making it big and causing an emotional stagnation.