RESISTING PAIN

     We expect to be pain free and happy forever, but why do we expect that? Our lives are riddled with first one thing and then another. Pain and difficulty of some sort is the standard fare, yet we resist it. We complain and feel that life is unfair, that we have been singled out, that others must surely have all of the things that we do not.
     If we could accept to our cores that it's ok to feel pain of all kinds, whether it be emotional, physical, spiritual, or mental, then perhaps we would not feel it so acutely as something "wrong" and "amiss." Perhaps, then, we could better take it in stride as something to simply experience like all the rest of our experiences- no better and no worse- just a natural part of our living situation.

I stop resisting my pain and let it be.