Well-Being

During my years of being involved with helping people, like you, find well-being and also continuing my journey I have come to find that "well-being" usually comes with the absence of pain. And pain is seen as something terrible that must completely go away. This message that society has been sending us and then we send to ourselves truly denies us the openness to listen to the messages our bodies are trying to share with us.

Listening to your body and asking "what do you need from me" allows us to come from a place of deep listening for the self and offers compassion to our mind, body, emotions and spirit. Being willing to work with your body and your mind together does take work and the openness to trust and listen to yourself. Allowing yourself to take a shift with your relationship to pain and uncomfortable sensations as well as emotions is essential to moving on and letting go of how you presently feel.

The following has been shared by Tara Brach via an unknown source-this speaks to shifting our relationship with pain.

The “Felt Sense” Prayer Author unknown – source unknown 

I am the pain in your head, the knot in your stomach, the unspoken grief in your smile. I'm your high blood pressure, your fear of challenge, your lack of trust. I'm your hot flashes, your fragile low back, your agitation, and your fatigue. 

You tend to disown me, suppress me, ignore me, inflate me, coddle me, condemn me. You usually want me to go away immediately, to disappear, just back into obscurity. More times than not, I'm only the most recent notes of a long symphony, the most evident branches of roots that have been challenged for seasons. 

So, I implore you. I am a messenger with good news, as disturbing as I can be at times. I am wanting to guide you back to those tender places in yourself, the place where you can hold yourself with compassion and honesty. I may ask you to alter your diet, get more sleep, exercise regularly, and breathe more consciously. I might encourage you to seek a vaster reality and worry less about the day-to-day fluctuations of life. 

I may ask you to explore the bonds and the wounds of your relationship. Wherever I lead you, my hope is that you will realize that success will not be measured by my eradication, but by the shift in the internal landscape from which I emerge. I am your friend, not your enemy. I belong. I have no desire to bring pain and suffering into your life. I'm simply tugging at your sleeve, too long immune to gentle nudges. 

I desire for you to allow me to speak to you in a way that enlivens your higher instincts for self-care. My charge is to energize you, to listen to me with the sensitive ear and heart of a mother attending to her precious baby. You are a being so vast, so complex with amazing capacities for self-regulation and healing. Let me be one of the harbingers that lead you to the mysterious core of your being, where insight and wisdom are naturally available when called upon with a sincere heart.