Stop demonizing your feelings! Stop pathologizing them, storifying them, you are making yourself sick. I. spent a big part of my healing journey doing everything I could to distract myself from certain feelings, and although the ways I distracted myself from the outside they looked very holy, but internally I was terrified of what would happen if I felt the SHAME fully, if I turned towards the GUILT fully, if I brought all of my attention towards the HOPELESSNESS, if I greeted the CRAVINGS. I was terrified that these feelings would bring back the stories that had been hardwired to them. And the stories kept coming back with them, until I STOPPED giving the stories any energy and I used all my mental power to be in my body with the FEELINGS, not the stories. This process takes time, takes mastery of your concentration, and then mastery of your ability to observe without criticizing, or personifying. And at some point, at some miraculous day you will turn towards your feelings and the stories that would habitually come up with them, they DON’T and you can just witness the deranged magic of the Goddess of impermanence working, and you witness those feelings that had been locked away in your body, change, they move up, and OUT! THEY ARE NO LONGER DEMONS, BUT MESSENGERS REMINDING ME TO BE IN MY BODY, TO BE PRESENT AND WITNESS THE GODDESS OF IMPERMANENCE AT WORK. MAY PRESENCE PREVAIL ON EARTH MAY PEACE PREVAIL ON EARTH I’m in the daily struggle with you all, in pain, and in joy, I love you all deeply XOXO Sah