This is a complex skill to learn in our modern world and Western culture because everything is designed to distract, entertain, and escape the pain of the world and our individual pain.
In fact, I am pretty convinced that the only way to be ok with the world as it is and participate in the pain systems is to have a high amount of numbing in our bodies.
We live with highly dysregulated and numb bodies that require constant "medicine" to avoid having to confront the actual depth and, therefore, the meaning of the pain we carry.
Dysregulated bodies that are regulated to the dystopia. If we were to awaken and feel it all, our unbreakable interconnectedness would bring us all to our knees and lay down our weapons of destruction.
To avoid feeling, we would rather keep scrolling down our artificial screens than honestly acknowledge the voices calling for help from the lands, the animals, the people, and our suffering souls.
The uncomfortable truths about the self and the world are buried under massive amounts of painkillers like social media, news, alcohol, excessive comfort, distractions, privileges, and drugs.
While we try to keep ourselves "up & going," the soul slowly dies inside, waiting for us to return home in our tired and tender bodies that never stop to feel it all...
True healing is waiting for us in the gentle return to a loving presence with ourselves and each other, the heartbreaking reality that there is "no other," something we cannot truly feel if we stay on the frenetic and harmful hamster wheel of capitalism, colonialism and all the systems disconnected from lands, sacred reciprocity, and truth.
We live in the illusion of a hyperconnected world, disconnected from the true self, the collective shared pain, the Earth's calling, and the wisdom needed to find a new way of being human in this time of prophecy.
And that is why we are so unwell and why the pain needs to be held.
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