Finding Peace in a Confusing World

As the world becomes more confused I am the witness to clients, friends and family taking on what one might call collective“suffering” that which does not belong to them, or are experiencing old body memory of past personal suffering being stirred and brought to the surface in the present, showing up as body pain or discomfort. I want to address and perhaps challenge the thinking that it has to be this way.  Can the world be confused and we be at peace with ourselves and our own lives?

I believe we can.

As I work with people who may be perceived as “suffering” emotionally, mentally, physically and/or spiritually, (which is true for them in those moments) I’m often struck after our work together that the suffering was actually life challenging a deeply held belief, arguing with reality, or an old unresolved body memory  resurfacing. Since words and what we tell ourselves matter I often wonder if we replaced  the word “suffering” for “being challenged” what that could open up on an energetic level? Could we be more open to a solution or new way of framing the memory or long held belief? Often after talking and going  deeper into the veracity of the way clents are thinking I’ve often found they are not suffering the present but the past, or taken on beliefs or emotions that don’t belong to them.  The body-mind appears to be confused and  holding onto a wound, trauma or event, or we could say the story is “stuck in the body system.”

SUFFERING definition

“The STATE of undergoing pain, distress or hardship.”

What is so interesting to me in this definition is the word “state.” What I know to be true about “states” is they come and

go…unless the mind becomes attached to a “state” of suffering and we create a story long after the pain, distress or hardship has passed, and the suffering becomes embedded in the body-mind and we attach and define ourselves by an event.

BIO-SPIRITUAL FOCUSING allows us to release and reframe the event by engaging the body, which takes on, and reveals it’s self as physical pain or discomfort.  Our bodies are “talking” to us constantly. Becoming quiet with these energies held in the body and giving them voice allows them to shift, change and/or release.

There are moments of suffering and challenge, it is true, and there is a distinction between suffering and challenging events. We extend our “suffering” by bringing the past to the present, never releasing the energy in our body system and not undoing the way we frame our lives with our beliefs.

We can live a life with our thoughts, feelings and actions being congruent; a life guided by our heart-knowing and intuitive nature, grounded in reality and open to, and supported by That which is bigger than ourselves.

Namaste…Alexis

11/15/2023