Got to share The Work with a group of trainers and we got into a discussion about what The Work entailed.

What struck my mind was when someone mentioned that, when I believe the thought that he hurts me and I do not allow it to happen, then it is not true for me. When I heard this, I had to step back and really imagine what it is like in my experience to hold this thought and live this way.

The thought that one hurts another, can be physical or emotional. For example, if you scream at me and I label that as hurting me, if I do not allow it to happen, I can ask you to stop screaming, but what many people do is to cut off the feeling where we feel hurt by the action and bandage it or disown that part of us. And I come to see how people feel numbed after a while when they have cut off too many parts of them that were hurt and did not move through the painful emotions.

They continue on functioning in life until one day they couldn’t contain all these disowned parts of them and then crashed.

I love how we all get to take our own story and go inside and find what is true for us. To give an answer to an experiential trip is such a disservice to one self.

Go within and find what is true for you.