Do you have chronic pain?
I’ve gone through various phases with it.
During childhood, I had daily migraines.
(Turns out that’s because I have PTSD from early childhood trauma!)
I’ve had some pretty deep healing phases, including an 18 month ACL replacement that took two surgeries to figure out.
I don’t know if I know what your pain is like, but here’s what my pain was like:
Exhausting
Sharp
Aching
Distracting
Isolating
This meditation is not going to cure your chronic pain.
But it will change your relationship to it.
Pain is a message, not a punishment.
Pain is your nervous system telling your brain, “Something’s off. We need to do something different.”
In your wisdom, you get to decide what that something different is.
Maybe it’s paying the close attention to the pain that seems unbearable, that we will do anything to escape.
Give it a try.
Let me know how it goes.
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Do you have chronic pain?
I’ve gone through various phases with it.
During childhood, I had daily migraines.
(Turns out that’s because I have PTSD from early childhood trauma!)
I’ve had some pretty deep healing phases, including an 18 month ACL replacement that took two surgeries to figure out.
I don’t know if I know what your pain is like, but here’s what my pain was like:
Exhausting
Sharp
Aching
Distracting
Isolating
This meditation is not going to cure your chronic pain.
But it will change your relationship to it.
Pain is a message, not a punishment.
Pain is your nervous system telling your brain, “Something’s off. We need to do something different.”
In your wisdom, you get to decide what that something different is.
Maybe it’s paying the close attention to the pain that seems unbearable, that we will do anything to escape.
Give it a try.
Let me know how it goes.
Daily Meditation: The Future Is None Of Your Business
Splendid Yoga
8 minutes 34 seconds
5 years ago
Daily Meditation: The Future Is None Of Your Business
Ever take a trip into the future?
Ever lose a night’s sleep wondering what’s going to happen?
Ever flip out over all the terrifying, terrible things that might happen?
Ever get so excited about something that’s going to happen that the reality of it is a letdown?
I’ve got some news for you, friend:
The future is none of your business.
The infinitude of the present moment is your business.
Here’s how to manage future-tripping thoughts:
It used to be that, to practice yoga, you needed to be celibate.
That means no sexual experiences of any kind, including self-pleasure.
The idea is, sexuality is purely a form of humanity. To transcend sexuality, and therefore your humanity, is to attain enlightenment.
That’s not always relevant in this day and age. Not all of us can be celibate; humanity would cease to exist.
Nowadays, it’s interpreted a bit more loosely.
So what does it mean to practice sexual purity?
Take a listen:
Splendid Yoga
Do you have chronic pain?
I’ve gone through various phases with it.
During childhood, I had daily migraines.
(Turns out that’s because I have PTSD from early childhood trauma!)
I’ve had some pretty deep healing phases, including an 18 month ACL replacement that took two surgeries to figure out.
I don’t know if I know what your pain is like, but here’s what my pain was like:
Exhausting
Sharp
Aching
Distracting
Isolating
This meditation is not going to cure your chronic pain.
But it will change your relationship to it.
Pain is a message, not a punishment.
Pain is your nervous system telling your brain, “Something’s off. We need to do something different.”
In your wisdom, you get to decide what that something different is.
Maybe it’s paying the close attention to the pain that seems unbearable, that we will do anything to escape.
Give it a try.
Let me know how it goes.
