It’s hurting. Really hurting…
Your head will try and make sense of it. It will flail, ruminate, obsess, deny, bargain, but the truth is there is no way to make sense of it.
You can’t bargain with pain; your mind’s trying to solve a riddle that doesn’t exist.
It’s a feeling, not a thought. The only real option you’ve got is to stop — and how the mind would love that: end the suffering, make it safe, maintain control.
Failure is safer to the mind because it maintains the fantasy that it is in control.
But then the second you stop, the same mind that just demanded you stop will begin berating you for it.
What’s the lesson? You can’t trust your thoughts!
Thinking is a veneer, a surface level, and you are much deeper than that.
You keep walking off because your mind keeps walking out, taking your power with it.
You are the master of your thoughts, not the slave to them, and many people just don’t know any better.
A lifetime of servitude driven by circular thinking that keeps you safe but also keeps you fucking miserable and utterly cut off from your real power.
When you are deep in suffering, you need your attention deep in your gut. Deep in your gut instinct;
Instinct is the operative word here, folks…
Don’t listen to your head. Listen to your body and gut. Breathe deep, bring the energy out of your head, plant it in your feet, and keep your attention in your gut.
As you go deeper into the pit of the suffering, match it by going deeper into the pit of your stomach.
Feel what you came here to feel. Allow the suck to be what it is. Don’t go to war with that shit — you won’t win…
The gut deals with what is. The mind deals exclusively with what was and what it fears will be. There’s no power there.
Lead with your gut. Listen to your instincts. You can’t think your way out of the pit; you have to feel your way out like it’s pitch dark and you can’t see.
The more you follow your instinctual knowing, the more your nervous system will regulate, the more the mind will settle.
Now you’re in your power!!
Gilesy 💪❤️
Ps: Relax, nothing is under control.
