Wise beings do not want to remain
a slave to the fear of pain. They permit the world to be what it is instead of
being afraid of it. They wholeheartedly participate in life, but not for the
purpose of using life to avoid themselves. If life does something that causes a
disturbance inside of you, instead of pulling away, let it pass through you
like the wind. After all, things happen every day that causes a disturbance
inside of you. At any moment you can feel frustration, anger, fear, jealousy,
insecurity or embarrassment. If you watch you will see the heart is trying to
push it all away. If you want
to be free you have to learn to stop fighting all these human feelings. When
you feel pain, simply view it as energy. Just start seeing these inner
experiences as energy passing through your heart and before the eye of your
consciousness. Then relax. Do the opposite of contracting and closing. Relax
and release. Relax your heart until you are actually face-to-face with the
exact place where it hurts. Stay open and receptive so you can be present right
where the tension is. You must be willing to be present right at the place of
the tightness and pain, and then relax and go even deeper. This is very deep
growth and transformation. But you will not want to do this. You will feel
tremendous resistance to doing this, and that’s what makes it so powerful. As
you relax and feel the resistance, the heart will want to pull away, to close,
to protect, and to defend itself. Keep relaxing. Relax your shoulders and relax
your heart. Let go and leave room for the pain to pass through you. It’s just
energy. Just see it as energy
and let it go. If you close around the pain and stop it from passing through,
it will stay in you. That is why our natural tendency to resist is so
counterproductive. If you don’t want the pain, why do you close around it and
keep it. Do you actually think that if you resist, it will go away? It’s not
true. If you release and let the energy pass through. Then it will go away. If
you relax when the pain comes up inside your heart, and actually dare to face
it, it will pass. Every single time you relax and release, a piece of the pain
leaves forever. Yet every time you resist and close, you are building up the
pain inside. It’s like damming up a stream. You are then forced to use the
psyche to create a layer of distance between you who experiences the pain and
the pain itself. That is what all the noise is inside your mind: an attempt to
avoid the stored pain.
Michael Singer
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