Pain is the living past in me.
I let it come up when it does, by way of people and circumstances.
I realize that the people and circumstances are not the reason why I am experiencing the pain.
I recognize fully that the pain that I am experiencing is already within me. It is the stored emotional baggage that I have been carrying for a long time.
It is futile to blame people and circumstances that bring out this pain in me because they are part of the ‘isness’ of the present moment.
Blaming the present moment is resisting Life itself.
The present moment, that is the Life that I am, by way of people and circumstances is bringing out the pain in me so that it can be released consciously.
Consciously experiencing emotional pain is like watching a bird that has come to sit on my window’s ledge.
I don’t have to scare her away. In a similar way, I don’t have to resist or try to release the emotional pain that arises within me.
Just noticing it is enough.
However, I can choose not to feed this bird, just as I can choose not to feed the emotional pain with the energy of my thoughts.
If I do so, the pain eventually fades away, just as the bird soon flys away too.
Even after such a conscious release of my emotional pain, there is a possibility of it arising again in the future.
If it does, I will watch it, become aware of it each time it becomes the object of my consciousness.