PAIN

The greater Energy of all life and living
Flows through the whole of creation
Unimpeded,
Until
It is constricted by resistive ligatures of thought and feeling -- the old, habitual ways of fulfilling ourselves.

(I resist; therefore I exist.)

The constrictions they cause are too tiny for the Energy flow;

At the point of contraction we experience Pain and Dis-ease.

Mind rushes around concocting strategies,  potions and disciplines
designed to avoid, salve and anaesthetise,

When all that is needed is to let-go.

Allow

Surrender

Relax

Release.

Breathe through the pain to the Energy,

And connect with that which is.


Whenever I do this, I experience the thought and the feeling loosening,
I feel the energy flow as the movement of some larger reality that I cannot even guess at
Surging through me and supporting me
In a heightened and deepened awareness.
I am the conduit
Completing a circuit.

My heart is quivering, but not from fear;

I am shaken from my foundations, but not out of panic;

My mind freezes: but not in depression;

And I know -- somewhere inside of all this --

Everything is OK

And I am alright.