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Owning my pain<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

It\u2019s summer, yet somehow I woke up to a temperature of 4 Celsius outside. I woke early as is normal. By 8:45 the temperature had soared to 10 C, warm enough to be outside to capture a bit of sunshine on my body. Today, meditation is not as easy on my body as it has been in the past. My left knee is hurting when I assume a semi-lotus position. With age, it seems my body is falling apart, tiny bit by bit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cThings falling apart is a kind of testing and also a kind of healing. We think that the point is to pass the test or to overcome the problem, but the truth is that things don\u2019t really get solved. They come together and they fall apart. . . . The healing comes from letting there be room for all of this to happen; room for grief, for relief, for misery, for joy.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

I am in a good space and place in my life, and for that I am grateful beyond measure. I am one of the lucky ones. In spite of those things of childhood and youth that sought to forever break my spirit, body, mind and soul, I survived and moved on to create a different life. I had thought I had left all behind me in the past. But, I am learning that one never leaves anything. The past is not something left behind. It is always present. I used to think that memories can be safely contained as if it was a photo tucked away in some photo album. But the memories are contained in the body and the senses and as a result are as close as one\u2019s skin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Even though I am in a good space and place in my life, things do fall apart and I tumble back into the same space and place of past trauma. There are triggers \u2013 just ask any military veteran who is diagnosed with PTSD \u2013 the war erupts and one is again totally immersed in the traumatizing events. One learns to flow through the falls and the ascents that cycle through one\u2019s life, the falling apart and the coming together again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cWhen things fall apart and we\u2019re on the verge of we know not what, the test for each of us is to stay on that brink and not concretize. The spiritual journey is ot about heaven and finally getting to a place that\u2019s really swell. In fact, that way of looking at things is what keeps us miserable.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

These words help me. I stop expecting some pill, some therapy, some guru to give me the answers and the relief from the complexities of being human, of being alive and complicated and complex.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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