Tired of the Pain

Emotional pain, while different than physical pain, can be excruciating. If left to run its own course it can wreak havoc on one's health and tie up the good that might otherwise be done in so many areas of life, and for an indefinite time.

When physical pain is extreme many turn to morphine or some kind of drug for relief, but there is no morphine for the crying soul. In reality, healing is needed, spiritual awakening, rather than something soporific. When one gets tired of the emotional pain, this becomes a turning point.

Often the turning point is accompanied by a redirecting of the force of the afflicting thought-patterns to an energy of philanthropy in a motive to do good to others. To help, heal, uplift, make happy, aid, support, or otherwise bless our fellow-man or other creatures on the planet, supplies recovery power to the honest giver.

What is your top area of interest? How could you envision this helping others? What could you read about or research for hours that would feel like mere moments to you? Connect with this thing.

Ask God to direct and guide you, and then stop talking! In the book of Revelation, when the 7th seal is broken, there is "silence in heaven for the space of half an hour" (8:1). Quiet your thought and listen spiritually. You can do this. Angel messages will occur. You will be guided. "Ask and ye shall receive, that your joy may be full" Jesus taught (John 16:24). Ask what the Father wants you to do to bless others out of a pure heart, and expect to receive ideas that are good. These ideas are blessed and in accord with His will. They lead to unselfish, kind, uplifting, edifying words and actions. They rebuild your life, better and higher than before. They strengthen and bless everyone.

Redirecting thought spiritually with purpose can only work good. It does not indicate that one no longer cares very deeply about a loved one who has suffered misfortune or who has passed, in fact, it honors that one. Right, loving, and good activity goes on eternally and is always blessed of our Father. You may resolve to know that all your endeavors to move forward in this productive and positive manner, all of it shows honor, respect, and love.

The most important thing is to love and honor God which means that one must express the qualities of the I AM through kindness, gratitude, diligence, unselfishness, generosity, pure thoughts, good deeds, grace, spiritual power, affection, intelligence, wisdom, and so forth. This is the nature of the divine, and the true nature of man as God's image (Gen. 1:26). Employed by these things all that you put your hand to is blessed, and all who remain in your heart are blessed.

Tired of the pain? Redirect. Ask. Listen. Act. Bless and be blessed.

Expand Your Comfort Zone

How big is your comfort zone? You might think of this "zone" as a circle around yourself. Within the perimeter are all the things that you are most comfortable with, things you are most used to, or things of which you have most expertise. When something comes to your experience that is outside of your comfort zone, it can cause some degree of stress, from slight discomfort to downright dread, fear, or trepidation. In grief coaching, this uncomfortable thing is usually due to a loss, either of a loved one, someone that was depended upon in some way, or loss of a home, business, or relationship damage. Any change at all will cause stress -- but the huge changes -- like when my husband of many years passed away and I found myself alone -- hit like a tidal wave that smashes in all around that comfort zone perimeter. Jesus said that the "winds and waves" would come and "beat on [the] house" -- things will happen that are difficult and force change. In Hebrew literature, "house" means "consciousness," so these are things that occur which beat in on our consciousness. The "house" that "does not fall" is the one "built on the rock." This rock is Christ, and Christ Jesus illustrates our true dominion in every situation, shows our capabilities through oneness with the Father, Love, to stand strong like a rock through adversity. You do not stand by yourself through human endeavor, but you stand supported and impervious through oneness with God -- like a ray of light to the sun. It is through grace that you are carried through the emotional storm. Be still and hold to this truth -- God is All, and it is He that comforts (strengthens) you and holds you secure on the rock. Whatever comes to you, no matter how difficult or insurmountable it appears, operates to expand your comfort zone if you turn to divine Love and focus on the Light that is God, knowing He sustains and carries you through. Even Jesus said, "I can of mine own self do nothing," but he adds that "whatsoever I see the Father do, the son doeth likewise." You are the child of God, and as His image and likeness,  you reflect and repeat the good that God is, in every action, in every word and deed (when you turn your attention to Him). You are like a ray of light that gives attention to the sun, its source, nature, substance, and real being. In this allness of Spirit where we "live, move, and have our being," all is present, there is no separation -- and this is the eternal reality. WHAT TO DO: The first 5 minutes and the last 5 minutes of your day (minimum) find a way to devote thought, heart, soul, and mind, to the Creator, our Father who loves you. Spiritualize your thought. In one week you will have turned from the tempter's despressive suggestions to a solid hour and 10 minutes of pure awareness of God's presence, power and love. Expand and include challenges, your comfort zone will expand, you will be higher and stronger, more comforted and able to better comfort others as well.

Change = Stress; One Power = Peace

Any change = stress

Any change, perceived as good or bad, is said to bring stress. I do not really want to bring such an unwelcome companion along with anything I do, anywhere I go. Stress is pesty and persistent; it seems to resist our best efforts to just stay calm or maintain inner peace.

After a loss of a loved one, a loss of a home, of a business, a marriage, and so forth, there is so much drastic change that stress can flood in like an uncontrollable surge through huge open doors -- an incoming flood that threatens to drown one, and for which there is no perceivable end!

There is a mental strategy.

And it works.

First, in order to have stress, you must have two powers, one pushing against the other. It's like pressing  the palms of your hands together really hard for a sustained amount of time. If you suddenly took away one hand, however, then what? With one power, not two, there is no stress.

Second, prayerfully meditate on God, Good, Love, as the one Power.

Third, after your meditation, consciously state the fact of one power operating in the universe to every circumstance and situation.

	Rom 13:1	Let every soul be subject unto the higher powers. For there is no power but of God: the powers that be are ordained of God.

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