Mindfulness Meditation and the Art of Reiki by Steve Robert Gooch

Author:Steve Robert Gooch
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: John Hunt Publishing
Published: 2022-05-15T00:00:00+00:00

Whatever you do, do not shut off your pain; accept your pain and remain vulnerable. However desperate you become, accept your pain as it is, because it is in fact trying to hand you a priceless gift – the chance of discovering through practice, what lies behind sorrow. (Baker, 1997)13

As we have seen, lasting happiness simply cannot arise if we are engaged in denying or suppressing the circumstances that we find ourselves in. Likewise, we cannot find happiness through attempting to “rip out” what we perceive to be “negativity” (as happens with some of the more unsophisticated energy healing disciplines). Happiness is on the other side of the veil of suffering. It may be obscured by our negativity bias, but it is there to be found if we are willing to search for it and be gentle with whatever we find. But we need to avoid simply being positive as this isn’t going to work. Much of the positive thinking literature encourages us to do just that but this simply promotes and entrenches a denial of our true state of being.

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