Finding Enlightenment Through Pain

What do you do when the pain is too much?

You’re doing the inner work, you’re processing the emotional energies stored in your body that are causing your symptoms, you’re talking to your body and listening to what it has to say… and some things are shifting, but perhaps it’s a slow process. Your body’s definitely taking its time and you may be losing patience and hope and perhaps running out of energy.

What do you do when can’t do any more? What do you do when it feels beyond you? How do you surrender without feeling like a victim?

You spend your pain like gold.

Your pain is so full of light and power that, if you know how to work with it, you can use it to create miracles.

SPEND IT LIKE GOLD

I’d like to address today what to do with pain that is overwhelming, or chronic - and that could be physical or emotional pain.

As usual, don’t dump your doctor – complement what you’re already doing with the expanded spiritual understanding I’m offering you here.

And… before you say that I don’t understand your pain: While it’s true that no one can fully step into your shoes, I’ve had my share of chronic pain and illness, and I am speaking from my own experience. Never assume you know what hell someone else has been through. I’m a human just like you and I am intimately familiar with pain.

Before I discovered everything I share here on this channel, I held trauma in my body for years in the form of chronic infections and pain in various internal organs. I carried it silently for years and even decades. I learned what happens when I don’t do the emotional and energetic work to process and integrate my traumas, and I learned what is possible when I do do the work.

And I also know that releasing our expectations around healing is already half the battle. That is not easy to do. But it will keep you in the present moment, it will ease your suffering and it will help your healing work be much more effective.

Expectations don’t work because there are many factors at play in our physical symptoms, and that can include not only personal trauma but also ancestral/genetic trauma and even soul-level agreements to experience certain things. So, it won’t always be a fast result. But all of the inner work you do regardless of the outcome makes a difference in your energy, in your experience of life, and in your spiritual expansion.

The practice I would like to share with you today is along these same lines of surrendering without expectations, and it will help you when the pain just feels too much or when you’re tired of fighting it. I learned this practice from my own teacher Elizabeth Wysen, who is not only an advanced mystic and seer, but also lives with the constant, extreme, daily chronic pain of Eyler’s Danlo’s syndrome.

So: What to do with physical or emotional pain that feels just overwhelming or never-ending?

Spend it like it is gold.

Your pain, and your suffering - which we could say is your resistance to the pain - is full of dense, heavy energy… and why? What does that mean?

Remember that of course everything that exists in the universe and beyond is basically made of consciousness – that unity consciousness that we are all a part of – and this consciousness simply takes the form of energy vibrating at different frequencies to appear as different things, objects, people, etc. to create the world we perceive.

The more concentrated that consciousness is, the denser the energy. And this concentration, or focus even, you could say, puts that consciousness under pressure. It’s compacted down to fit more energy into a smaller space. It starts to take form; it starts to appear solid. Yes, this is how matter is formed, and if you’d like to learn more you can find my episode on gravity HERE, but when we’re talking about the lighter energies of emotions and thoughts and nonphysical energies, it still works the same.

You’ve got energies and emotions ranging from very dense - and that would be what we consider negative or painful - all the way to lighter, less dense frequencies like love, happiness and joy.

So, when you’ve got very dense physical or emotional pain, and it feels overwhelming or never-ending and it’s just too much right now... there’s a practice you can do that is a very powerful mystical act of generosity and surrender, and that is to offer your pain up to the Divine.

Because your pain is so dense, it is full of power. It is the light of consciousness compacted down to appear dark. It is heavier and denser than gold, metaphorically speaking, and it’s worth even more than gold. If it’s an abundant resource, spend it. Offer it up to the Divine. Say “Source, take this pain and turn it into blessings of health, comfort and joy to myself and all beings who need it.”

You’re not sending it directly to people, because when you send energies directly, they are being filtered through your own traumas, density, and fears. So, the best way is to work hand in hand with your greater divine Self and ask Source to recycle that pain into something beautiful and shower those blessings onto the world like little sparkles of light.

It’s a precious act of generosity, and if you do this regularly, all that generosity will open up space in your field and your life for you to receive even financial abundance and other pleasant surprises from the universe as well.

You are energetically rich and you can use that energy by either healing and integrating your pain and trauma yourself in the process of emotional alchemy I’ve mentioned HERE, or by offering it up to the Divine. Or both. Do the healing and integration work to welcome the wisdom in your pain when you’ve got the energy. It will expand you like nothing else. And when you’re not up to it, offer it up.

Spend it like it is gold.

SURRENDER

Most especially, this is a powerful act of surrender to the greater flow of life that is Source. And that’s the other part of this. Surrendering can sometimes feel unfair and even impossible when we’re suffering.

Let Source take it and recycle it. Give it up and surrender. Surrender not to victimhood - because if you’re doing this work you’re expanding beyond that - but to the magnificence that is the real you.

All of what we are doing here, all of the healing and integrating, all the rewilding of our soul, all of the expansion and creation and re-discovery of beauty and magic in our world, all of it is bringing our cute little small selves with our very precious and important free will, closer in sync with the grandness and the bigness of the divine will.

And then, while you are the captain of your own ship, and you are the soul in charge of your body, thoughts and emotions, you simultaneously choose to steer your ship with the current of life, not against it.

Releasing your resistance will cause you to suffer less, releasing your expectations will keep you in the present moment, and releasing your attempt to control your pain will not only help you to feel relief, but will expand you like nothing else will.

Your path may be one of finding enlightenment through pain, not in spite of it.

Can you find the light in your pain? In doing so, you would be increasing the light on the entire planet and helping others to do the same. Your awareness alone is enough to change the world.

That might be the key to helping humanity as a whole to enlighten ourselves and reclaim our sovereignty. That might be the key to helping all of us rewild our souls, to go back to our true nature while enjoying the adventure of life, and to live in harmony with nature and according to the divine will expressing itself through us.

Can we do this? Let it be so in divine order and timing, according to divine will, for the highest good of all.

Be brave. Be the light that you are.

Namaste, my friend.

P.S.: If you’d like to turn your pain into light in the amplified energies of a group and learn to help your body heal, there are still a few spots left at our next online retreat HERE.