You can’t escape pain, you’re human! You’re designed to have pain as a warning system that something is wrong and needs attention. That’s a critical tool for survival. Sometimes you can fix the pain immediately, like taking your hand off a hot surface or telling someone to stop insulting you.
Sometimes you can’t stop the pain that easily. You lose your job, and it takes months to find another. You have a chronic illness that persists despite medical attention. When you focus on that pain, or even on a past hurt, and replay it instead of finding a way to move on, your energy gets stuck in a pattern of suffering.
You may have seen others replaying pain and learned to suffer by imitating them, or you may have discovered the pattern accidentally when you were a child. It may be a new thought that SUFFERING IS OPTIONAL. It really is. To end it, you need to change the familiar pattern and find something more useful to do with your energy.
When I first encountered the process, I was so awed at how quickly it allowed me to change my own patterns that instead of retiring from my 40-year psychotherapy practice, I had to learn more about it. As I learned, I practiced, taught others to use it, and eventually wrote “Letting It Go.”
I quickly learned to reclaim my energy instead of replaying pain and suffering unnecessarily. You can too. It’s amazingly easy. Start now.
This post is a comment I wrote about a passage on Page 78 revised edition, Page 86 original of Letting It Go: Relieve Anxiety and Toxic Stress in Just a Few Minutes Using Only Words (Rapid Relief with Logosynthesis®). You can see the passage in the book. You can also see the excerpt here. This link will take you to Bublish.com, where I regularly publish comments on parts of this book. This is a site where authors share of their work. You can subscribe to my musings, there, as well as to the musings of many other authors. It’s a great place to learn about new books and I recommend that you visit.