(06-26-2013, 08:13 PM)Adonai One Wrote: [ -> ]When we feel stricken, is the pain we feel just an indicator of progress? Is the pain a reaction of the balancing process itself? And as we sit and feel the pain, things gradually resolve?
Sure this sounds simplistic but I just want to see if I can get more answers here.
Thanks!
When you have a desire, and you are focused upon that which is in opposition to that desire, you will experience suffering (pain). Sometimes, pain can just be an after effect of leaving your "comfort zone". As you settle into a new equilibrium, sometimes the transition is too fast, and you aren't quite up to speed with it yet, so will experience a degree of discomfort as you acclimate to a new homeostasis.
If that's not the case, you need to figure out what it is you are focusing on, or thinking about, or how you are interpreting things, which is causing you to focus in opposition to that which you truly desire. Emotion arises in response to what you are thinking about. Distorted, or imbalanced thought, results in distorted or imbalanced emotion. As the thoughts become more balanced, the distortions become less, and the emotional manifestation begins to more and more resemble a positive sense of well being.
To
relieve the suffering, you either have to stop
desiring, or you have to change your focus to be more positive in regards to what you want. Ceasing desire is a process of dismantling beliefs, which can be a time consuming affair. It is better, in the short run at least, to stop focusing in a resistant way, and when you are feeling more at peace, you can analyze beliefs and what they really entail. Beliefs are just thoughts, or foci, as well. They are just more habitually entrenched than surface thoughts are.
Or you can just stop thinking for a while. If you can meditate, and release thought (or some degree of it) and just experience pure being, you will feel the suffering disperse (for at least a while) while you center yourself in pure beingness (or some relative approximation at least), which is, from our 3rd density perspective, resistance free. Sometimes when you leave the problem in this way, for a while, and then go back to it, you approach it from a more balanced perspective, and the solution becomes apparent.
Ultimately, though, there is really no way around changing your viewpoint. Therein lie all the distortions. All the balancing work is there.