No one wants to feel pain.

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We all strive to get past it.

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In fact, we will do almost anything to avoid it.

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Sometimes we bury it deep inside.

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No matter what we do, it still exists.

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Hiding deep inside our bodies.

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Our cells remember the pain.

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Even if we don't.

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The nervous system holds on to all of it like a giant hard drive.

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Waiting for us to do something about it.

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It may manifest as carrying extra weight in our bodies.

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Or by a nervous energy that keeps us active all the time.

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Regardless of how it shows up for us, there is only one solution.

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The only way to be free from our pain is to do the one thing we don't want to do.

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We need to feel it.

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To breathe through it.

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For it only by acknowledging the pain inside of us that we can be at peace with it.

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It is only by feeling it again that we can release it.

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We must walk through the fire of the pain to come out the other side.

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And when we do, there is so much waiting for us.

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The other side of the pain is where our future lies.

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It is where our peace is.

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And to get to it we must brave being in the depths of those intense emotions.

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It can hurt so bad that we never want to feel that way again.

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So we close ourselves off from feeling.

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And by doing that we no longer the pain.

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The problem is that when we close ourselves off from our feelings, we are closed to the good feelings as well.

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We loose our connection to our joy, our happiness.

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The richness of life.

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So as difficult as it may be to feel the pain, the sorrow, and the despair, it is the only way to heal it.

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To truly let it go we must dig into it and feel it so we can be free of it.

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And the freedom we feel when we do can be exquisite,

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The lightness and the newness that comes after the rawness of the emotions is real.

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And they last.

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For once we feel and release the pain there is now space for something new to exist.

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Something light and fresh and whole.

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Is that not worth it?

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Do you know what pain you are holding onto that stops you from being free?

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~ Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant