Trying to stay afloat

[labug]

I'm going to offer a slightly different perspective. This is not about worry or rumination but about the pain of this situation we've all found ourselves in.

Sometimes we end up here because we stuffed our feelings and didn't want to deal with the uncomfortable stuff. We couldn't just sit with it, take what it had to teach us and then let it go.

So we searched out "things" to make us feel better or ignored what was really happening,hoping it would just go away.

I believe in GAL as much as anyone but we also have to take care of ourselves by allowing the opportunity to grieve, to process emotions, to realize that this is a big deal.

To learn what our uncomfortable feelings have to teach us.

That doesn't mean you live your life an sobbing mess in the corner but on those days when you find yourself there, accept without judgment that it's a part of the process, give yourself some time, figure out what you're really feeling (the hard part) and then let it go. Our emotions are here to tell us something, give us guideposts.

“Most of us do not take these situations as teachings. We automatically hate them. We run like crazy. We use all kinds of ways to escape -- all addictions stem from this moment when we meet our edge and we just can't stand it. We feel we have to soften it, pad it with something, and we become addicted to whatever it is that seems to ease the pain.”~Pema Chodron