Lacewing wrote: ↑Fri Sep 15, 2023 5:58 pm
So, why is this different than all the other discomforts in life that you seek to ease/soften? For example, you probably cover up if you're cold... or remove your shoes if they hurt... and avoid driving your car if it has a flat tire? You could choose to experience and feel these sensations too, but do you?
How can you know how things might shift for your brain/conscious experience -- or is that what you might be resistant to? If there's nothing all that serious or permanent about this experience and these bodies, why not ease our despair and discomforts while we're here?
There is no difference to the discomfort, except I understand that my feelings and emotions remove themselves, all by themselves. I don't have to physically remove them like I could a hurting shoe, or put on a coat when cold. I can avoid driving a car with a flat tyre, but I cannot avoid my thoughts, feelings, emotions and sensations. I cannot make them appear, or make them go, I can only observe them and understand they change all by themselves without my help.
Like for instance, yesterday I felt quite low, quite depressed actually. And yet today I feel completely better, I feel good today.
So I know to not get overwhelmed by my feelings, and to just allow them to be present because that is for me part of being human, it's how our brain chemistry works.
I do understand that meds can ease, relieve, temporally suppress and help us deal with the symtoms of our mental health, but meds are no cure, I do know that, so that's why I choose not to use them. I know there is no cure for being alive, that's what nonduality taught me, it said, nothing is born and so nothing can die. I believe that. And so I always trust in the universe to know what it is doing, because it's obviously doing something, and it's not me doing it, so I just hand over the reigns, rather than think I have control over anything, when I know all too well that I haven't.
Thanks for your kind hearted advice Lacewing.