Charles Eisenstein, "Pain: A Call for Attention," Reality Sandwich
http://www.realitysandwich.com/pain_call_attention
"In its demonization of negativity, New Age manifestation ideology based
on the Law of Attraction or the power of positive thinking bypasses a
crucial gateway to healing. We are told that to manifest health or
money or love, we must not give attention to negativity: the feelings
of impotence, frustration, or hopelessness that often surround these
issues. But these painful emotions are actually messages from the soul:
indicators of a blockage that needs to be cleared. The illness,
poverty, or loneliness that we want to change may actually exist in
order to give us access to buried emotional wounds, so that they may
rise into the light of awareness for healing. If we try to change the
situation without healing the wound that creates it, we will succeed
temporarily at best, and the wound will find other ways to make its
presence known. We seem to want to heal while skipping the healing
process; we want healing without healing. That is impossible. As
Confucius said, "I have heard of flying with wings; I have never heard
of flying without wings." We must feel in order to heal. The answer is
staring us in the face; it lies within everything we battle against and
everything we avoid.
"With this in mind, I would like to offer a revised technique based on
the Law of Attraction that actually works. Go ahead and write your
affirmation, create your visualization, state your new belief. Then
notice any negativity that comes up: doubt and disbelief initially, and
then perhaps a cascade of pain: stories of the genre, "It's not fair";
anger at the injustice of the universe; perhaps, if you are like me, a
deep grief with no object. Do not push this negativity away, but
instead resolve to feel it more and not less. Stay with it as long as
you can, without trying to figure it out, without trying to rationalize
it. Just be in it, feel it for as long as you can. Eventually it will
peak, and at its very maximum it will break, and it will give way to
something else, perhaps a feeling of peace, serenity, or even euphoria.
When that happens, you can know that you have healed a bit of the wound
whose unfelt energies were blocking you"
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