When you Hurt... Observe... What is Life Trying to Teach You: Triumphing over Pain

Are there times when the relationships you experiene leave you in physical pain. For example, Sitting down with your parents for dinner for the first time in months, excited to tell them your new accomplishments and endeavors in life only to be greeted with looks and sounds of complete disgust. Finally realizing that there is nothing you can do that will please them. They are who they are. It’s not about you, It is about them. Still, you feel physical pain for weeks after the encounter.

It may be easier to build a brick wall of resentment and bitterness. But truely, how does this serve your purpose. It takes strength to maintain dignity when someone we love humiliates and degrades our successes in life. How can we move past these rejections towards self fulfillment?

What is this painful experience telling you? What can you learn from this emotional pain to gain your own peace of mind?

Practice self acceptance on your next mountain hike.

Affirmation: I can love and accept myself even when I feel pain of rejection..

Mindful Moment: Sit comfortably seated, with an awareness in posture. Elongating spine, chin up, shoulders back, arms relaxed, focusing on breath. Listening to the breath, with each breath expanding, lengthening, then letting go. Notice an awareness in how you are feeling towards yourself? Where do you physially hurt? What is this pain telling you? Can you accept and love yourself through feelings of discomfort, pain, and rejection? What thoughts, feelings, sensations, reactions are present? What are you noticing? When you feel distracted or unclear, keep going back to your breath. Is it shallow or full? Lengthen each breath. Then, let go.

Nature Experience: Take a hike and keep going all of the way to the top. Stay aware in each moment of any thoughts, feelings, sensatons, or reactions that are present. Just observe and notice your body sensations. Sit with any pain or discomfort to ask youreslf what you need to give yourself to heal, to feel nurtured. With intention, when you feel pain, acknowledge the pain and observe what itis telling you. Say iout loud to yourself, I can love and nurture myself even when I feel rejection..

Journal Prompt: During my hike today a persistent thought, feeling, or reaction was? What did I observe? How did this effect my ability to keep moving forward? Was I able to keep going to reach the top? What was the view like? Was I able to accept and love myself even through feelings of pain and rejection? How did I do this?