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by Linda Madani
Surrendering your pain is an excellent exercise however; it is
pain that teach us to be compassionate. What is important is to not hold onto
past experiences.
Living in the present sometimes means to feel our pain deeply and to stay
connected to it in order to exorcise the negative emotions. Once this is
processed you have to let go of attachment to the past emotions.
One thing that I learned while I was healing my ovary is that I was always
looking for the pain in my body and hence awakening it. Later, I realized that
I was doing the same thing with my emotional pain. Pain belongs to past
experiences.
"Spirit is always with me. It wants to lift my pain. It does this not by
abolishing painful memories but by putting me in totally in the present, where
the past doesn't exist."
Deepak Chopra in The Path to Love
Surrendering your life "Isvarapranidhana" is a little
different. Many people say that one should not surrender their life because
they are afraid to relinquish control over their life. It gives them a false
sense of security. In order to truly surrender your life you have to choose to
trust and relinquish control. You must therefore drop the illusion of the sense
of separation to be at one and in sync with the universe.
We say that we have free choice but to trust is the only choice that is
required from us. On the other hand, our ability to receive is limited by our
openness to God's love. To receive God's love we have to love our self. To love
our self, we have to be compassionate to our self. To be compassionate to our
self, we have to be compassionate to others and vice versa.
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