Day 36 Pain and emotion

I was doing today's SEP exercise and came across a quote: "Pain has no place to hide in a person who is deeply happy and fulfilled, absent of conflict and armed with the correct information."

That got me thinking. Until starting this course I always thought emotional distress was a consequence of being in pain. I think I've had this completely wrong and I'm grateful to be able to reframe this in my mind.

It's amazing how we can go through times of great emotional anguish, and because we don't know how to deal with it, it gets pushed down and consciously forgotten about. And for me, it became a bad dream of sorts. And physical pain felt totally independent of anything emotional. That got me thinking, was I really as happy as I thought I was, throughout many years of my life? I've definitely had plenty of great experiences though when I look at my life now, I have always been running from anxiety and sadness, pushing those feelings away from me because I did not want to feel this way. I think I've been worried wayyyy more than I ever would have believed, and felt trapped by these emotions. I'm grateful that now the reframing of the cycle is become easier to see. There is always so much fear (pain) trying to be someone you don't feel you are inside.

 

I love this quote!

 

Really insightful!

 

I'm tending to think that way to recently. Nature doesn't care if we are happy, it just wants us to survive. The happiness part is up to us!