From Pain to Light

What is our pain for?

“The wound is the place where the light enters you.” Rumi

Human existence is full of pain, trauma, suffering. We seem to keep experiencing pain in countless ways, recreating and passing it on to others to endure. We surrender to it’s inevitable presence in our lives.

Sometimes we complain, whinge, blame others, blame God. Mostly we just endure in our “lives of quiet desperation”.

However, deep within ourselves is a knowing that pain is not right somehow. That we are not meant to remain locked into endless cycles of suffering. That ultimately, our wounding is not the truth of us.

When we put our heads above the clouds and re-experience the endless Sun beyond, we return to the goal of all therapy; to remember who we truly are beyond our human pain, an eternal child of the Divine.

When we have suffered enough to seek assistance, we begin to lift our heads up. By allowing love to shine into our wounds, the pain starts to transmute back to light.

If all was easy and comfortable in our worldly life, maybe we would never stop to consider what lies beyond the dark clouds above. With pain as our motivator, we launch skywards in consciousness and eventually break through the egoic atmosphere into greater Space.

Therapy always becomes a spiritual journey over time. Because what we are beneath our fears and limitations remains as we always truly were: beloved children of the Heavens.

“Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.” Kahlil Gibran

“Forgive yourself for not being at peace. The moment you completely accept your non-peace, your non-peace is transmuted into peace. Anything you accept fully will get you there, will take you into peace. This is the miracle of surrender.” Eckhart Tolle