Pleasure blocks, but pain clears the way of inspiration.
Bowl of Saki, September 4, by Hazrat Inayat Khan
Pain has a great power; the truth of God is born in pain, sincerity rises out of pain. Metaphysically, the heart is a gate, and the gate is closed when the feeling is hardened, and the gate is open when there is some pain.
~~~ "Sangatha I, Tasawwuf", by Hazrat Inayat Khan (unpublished)
Tagore says: 'When the string of the violin was being tuned it felt the pain of being stretched, but once it was tuned then it knew why it was stretched'. So it is with the human soul. While the soul goes through pain, torture and trouble it thinks that it would have been much better if it had gone through life without it. But once it reaches the culmination of it then, when it looks back, it begins to realize why all this was meant: it was only meant to tune the soul to a certain pitch.
from http://wahiduddin.net/mv2/XIV/XIV_16.htm
In my experience pain can lead to an opening of the heart, to God Consciousness and awareness of the higher self, higher power and oneness. I believe this is the ultimate lesson of pain.
The experience of pain causes us to guard, protect, which naturally closes us up. Think of how we protect our wounds, we guard ourselves from feeling further pain. Over time we can habitually protect and eventually we build a pattern of anticipating pain and guarding, ultimately increasing anxiety and keeping the nervous system on alert. This creates a difficult cycle and a pattern where waking up takes effort.
By calming the nervous system through Meditation, Autogenic Training Transcutaneous Accupuncture or Reiki - really any combination of energy medicine treatments that will calm the nervous system. By seperating our selves from the pain and seeing it as our body and not our selves, we begin to be conscious of our role and the role of our higher power, soul and spirit in our lives. Once we connect to our higher selves and higher power we can gain control over aspects of pain and begin to open to more. This is how pain changes, it changes us.
Bowl of Saki, September 4, by Hazrat Inayat Khan
Pain has a great power; the truth of God is born in pain, sincerity rises out of pain. Metaphysically, the heart is a gate, and the gate is closed when the feeling is hardened, and the gate is open when there is some pain.
~~~ "Sangatha I, Tasawwuf", by Hazrat Inayat Khan (unpublished)
Tagore says: 'When the string of the violin was being tuned it felt the pain of being stretched, but once it was tuned then it knew why it was stretched'. So it is with the human soul. While the soul goes through pain, torture and trouble it thinks that it would have been much better if it had gone through life without it. But once it reaches the culmination of it then, when it looks back, it begins to realize why all this was meant: it was only meant to tune the soul to a certain pitch.
from http://wahiduddin.net/mv2/XIV/XIV_16.htm
In my experience pain can lead to an opening of the heart, to God Consciousness and awareness of the higher self, higher power and oneness. I believe this is the ultimate lesson of pain.
The experience of pain causes us to guard, protect, which naturally closes us up. Think of how we protect our wounds, we guard ourselves from feeling further pain. Over time we can habitually protect and eventually we build a pattern of anticipating pain and guarding, ultimately increasing anxiety and keeping the nervous system on alert. This creates a difficult cycle and a pattern where waking up takes effort.
By calming the nervous system through Meditation, Autogenic Training Transcutaneous Accupuncture or Reiki - really any combination of energy medicine treatments that will calm the nervous system. By seperating our selves from the pain and seeing it as our body and not our selves, we begin to be conscious of our role and the role of our higher power, soul and spirit in our lives. Once we connect to our higher selves and higher power we can gain control over aspects of pain and begin to open to more. This is how pain changes, it changes us.