It’s a real challenge isn’t it! In these tough times when there’s so much pain and suffering and so many atrocities on every level of human existence. The temptation when we feel pain is to shut down, protect the heart and avoid the causes of the pain.
What if we thought about pain differently – seeing it rather as a stimulus to step up, to step forward toward a transformation? What if that’s the actual role of pain?
Our hearts are resilient beyond all belief. We can trust the heart with all that life throws at it. It’s the mind that can be unreliable. So as we encounter pain and sadness the heart invites us to enter into greater trust and act from that place. See the green shoots in and amongst the apparent devastation. Celebrate and amplify those green shoots. Listen, with the heart, to the next step we are each called to take individually – a step that is based in love and that supported by the strength of love will create a beautiful and positive transformation.
Pain is our teacher – the heart is the wise sage that understands this and also has the answer. We ‘simply’ need to trust our heart, enquire into the pain and find our next level of transformation.