ulcerative colitis - application of awareness

[Guest guest]

Awtar Singh, thanks for sharing some of your process and application

of "awareness" as a tool for healing.

 

 

(The below was sent by a friend)

 

....every time you avoid an event or activity because it's painful, you

automatically connect the discomfort with whatever you do

instead...This happens with every form of psychological suffering we

try to outrun...

 

 

People who've been through hell are often forced to learn this, which

is why activist, cancer patient, and poet Audre Lorde wrote, "When I

dare to be powerful - to use my strength in the service of my vision,

then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid."

 

 

Once we're willing to confront our emotional suffering, we begin

making choices based on attraction instead of aversion, love instead

of fear. Where we used to think about what was "safe," we now become

interested in doing what seems right or fun or meaningful or ripe with

possibilities...

 

 

What happens when we're willing to feel bad is that, sure enough,

we often feel bad - but without the stress of futile avoidance.

Emotional discomfort, when accepted, rises, crests, and falls in a

series of waves. Each wave washes parts of us away and deposits

treasures we never imagined. Out goes our naivete, in comes wisdom;

out goes anger, in comes discernment; out goes despair, in comes

kindness. No one would call it easy, but the rhythm of emotional pain

that we learn to tolerate is natural, constructive and expansive. It's

different from unwilling suffering, the way a sting of disinfectant is

different from decay; the pain leaves you healthier than it found you...

 

 

When fear makes your choices for you, no security measures on

earth will keep the things you dread from finding you. But if you can

avoid avoidance - you can choose to embrace experiences out of

passion, enthusiasm, and a readiness to feel whatever arises - then

nothing, nothing in all this dangerous world, can keep you from being

safe.

 

 

Martha Beck

Author of Leaving the Saints and The Joy Diet

>From "O"

February 2006

 

 

Kundaliniyoga, <kundalini_yoga wrote:

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> Interesting Dharm. That's great info. The liver is key.

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> One comment: If Yogiji said there was no treatment to heal hemorrhoids,

> there's a way to heal them without treatment!

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> What I have noticed is the feeling I get when hemorrhoids appear and you

> know what the feeling is each time?

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> I feel screwed. I feel taken advantage of. So I integrate that and

heal by

> learning my lesson.

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> The hemorrhoids always go away after that.

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> Blessings,

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> Awtar Singh

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> Rochester, NY

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