So this gout thing isn’t going away quickly. I remember the last time I had it, it took about a week or so for it to die down. So – I’m still feeling this pain daily and settling into the remedy and the lesson The Uni-verse is teaching me right now.
One of the things I’m present to at the moment is not just the pain that I feel, but also the space around the pain. It’s interesting; I have noticed that when I push against the pain with my thoughts – it actually increases the pain. But when I accept the pain, it creates space around the pain and it lessens. It doesn’t go away, but it’s not as aggressive and I also feel the rest of my body calm down when I do this.
And then this got me thinking about the space around things. You know, like the space around your thoughts, or the space around your words, or the space around what you say versus what you mean.
You might be thinking, “Mastin, what the HECK are you talking about “the space around” something? I don’t understand.
Well, the idea is that we have a thought, but we also have that part of us that is observing the thought. Or for me, I have the pain, but there is that part of me that is observing the pain. There’s anger, but then there is that part of us that is observing the anger.
It’s a cliché, but it’s true that where focus goes, everything flows. And then what we focus on expands. These are cliché’s because they are true. Our job is to become aware of what we focus on.
Are you focused on the problem or the space around the problem? That is to say, are you focused on the problem or that part of you that is observing the problem? Am I focused on the pain or that part of me that is observing the pain?
When we focus on the observer, or “the space around” an event or situation, we detach from the situation and realize it is not who we are. And when we de-identify with a situation, with pain, anger, frustration and the like, we can then begin to change and transform it. First, we can accept that it exists; then we can give it a new and empowering meaning; and then finally, we can take action on that new meaning.
When I first got this gout, I kept asking, “Why did this have to happen to me AGAIN!? And in the first week of the year?” And these questions were pushing against the situation and the pain. But then, quickly I started asking a new question: “What does The Uni-verse want me to learn from this?” And I started getting a new answer because I was focused on and aware of being the observer of my situation and I gave it an empowering meaning with that question. As a result, I got a different answer because I put my focus on learning from this moment instead of playing the self-opted in role of victim.
When we begin to do this in all areas of life, our lives change dramatically. How can YOU become the observer of your life, realize that you are not the events, emotions or situations that you are witnessing, and then give what’s going on a new and empowering meaning and then take ACTION from that new meaning? Let me know, please leave a comment or feel free to email me at WhatImGoingThru@TheDailyLove.com
Love and space,
Mastin
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Mastin Kipp is the CEO and Founder of The Daily Love. Follow him on Twitter here.
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