Terminally Unique

Terminally Unique

We either make ourselves miserable or we make ourselves strong. The amount of work is the same. -Carlos Castaneda

Pain is part of life, I can feel it and let it go

My pain is not so very unique after all; it looks a lot like everyone else's. In the rooms I become right-sized. I have a place to share what is inside of me, what I have carried in silence. I hear other people's experiences and I find myself in them, too. I share my own and people identify with me. I feel less alone, less terminally unique. I get out of myself and into the world. My head stops spinning and my heart opens up. For a moment I am present in the here and now; my thoughts aren't racing towards the future or churning on the past. Today I will remind myself that pain is part of life. I recognize that what causes people to become crazy or dysfunctional is running from pain. Actually feeling pain takes a few minutes, a few hours, a few days, or a few months. Running from pain takes a lifetime. No matter what my life is handing me, I am part of creating it, even if all I am creating is my reaction to it. If I don't like what is around me, if something is bringing up feelings of pain or frustration, then life is trying to teach me something that I need to learn. Today I will hold the problem I am experiencing in the palms of my hands and ask my Higher Power to reveal the answers to me, to give me insight.