Stories of Pain

Transcript

I’d like to talk to you about stories of pain.

A lot of the time when we experience trauma like heartbreak or physical trauma or some kind of family dysfunction. There are all sorts of things that can cause us pain and as a result cause us suffering.

Now I know with many artists and even artists among my own friends, they have this illusion that it’s necessary to hold on to their pain to be artistic or creative.

Because this has been one key source of inspiration a lot of the time they will overlook the fact that their inspiration often comes from other sources or pain is just one element in their inspiration.

They’re drawing from many things and they aren’t really realizing it. But because the pain is comfortable many times we want to maintain this homeostasis.

We were a certain way so in some form we wish to continue to be a certain way.

We know what it’s like to be that way so why not be that way?

That kind of pain is not always necessary and it’s not always conducive to inspiration.

We might think that we need these things but they might actually be a crutch we long outgrew.

We might not yet have realized it.

I know this story is common among many comedians. If you listen to the Joe Rogan podcast you can hear him and many of his guests tell the same story, that they believe pain is necessary in order for them to relate to other people so they can be funny.

Maybe these things something like the speck placed into an oyster to produce a pearl. That’s a popular myth but important for this analogy. The speck stimulates, agitates or provokes an oyster into producing a pearl.

Now that you have the pearl, you can let go of the speck and simply let go of that story.

Explore your own emotions and inspiration. If you’re heart broken you might tell yourself that you are honoring the past love by maintaining the pain or holding onto it in your heart by bringing it to life again and again, maintaining it with your thoughts.

You might believe this is somehow helpful to you, in a way it is.

Helping you be perceived as a victim so you can enjoy the payoff so you don’t have to take full responsibility for your own heart.

Why not be powerful, today?

Why not be open? Loving?

Be powerful today, be open, be loving. All these curtains of the past that have hidden your true self. All these walls built that no longer serve you. Now they melt away, brick by brick they tumble. Now you are whole, now you have always been whole.

Thank you for taking the time to be conscious of your pain and suffering. Thank you for letting go of stories and habits which no longer serve you.

Thank you for being and thank you for becoming.