Dear Friend,
Recently I worked with a woman, Sophia, who is thirty-five years old, and who has been on a spiritual journey all her adult life. She has lived in ashrams and studied with many different teachers, yet still has not found freedom from the emotional pain of her childhood.
Her “story” is a familiar one, a story of abandonment. When she was a child, her mother ignored her emotional needs, and her father was always busy with his work and was never around.
Now, she fluctuates between experiences of real peace and bliss borne from her years of spiritual practice, and times of extreme pain, sadness, and emotional trauma, such that she finds herself feeling so alone, so lost, that she doesn’t want to live anymore.
When I worked with her, she was caught in the pain of her abandonment. She was wracked with grief, sobbing like a child. I looked into her eyes and encouraged her to honor her feelings, but not go into her usual story about them, which basically was: I feel so alone… life is not worth living… I just want to die…
Then I said, gently but firmly: “You can handle this, Sophia. These feelings are from your childhood, but you are now thirty-five years old. You are a grown woman, wise and powerful, and you are bigger than anything you are experiencing, including these feelings and emotions. So, be the wise, powerful woman you are…”
Soon, she stopped crying and began to breathe more calmly and evenly. She looked back at me with a steady, open-eyed gaze. Her dark-brown eyes sparkled. Slowly, she smiled, and said, “I can handle it… It’s true, I am bigger than the emotional pain I experience. Wow… “
Then she gave me a warm embrace, and thanked me. I said to her, “No, thank you. Thank you for being vulnerable enough to share your pain with me. Now you have a new mantra to say to yourself whenever those feelings of abandonment, and the stories around it, start to surface.”
She smiled again, and said, “Yes… I can handle it.”
Love and blessings, Jim
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