5 Ways misery helps you

Misery is a concept that often alienates human beings. If misunderstood, it perpetuates a destructive cycle. When you reflect on sources of pain, this may trigger anger, bitterness, and more negativity. Misery is a state of mind that lowers energy, strips you of vitality, focus and alertness.

Part of you may wonder how things could be different, how some happening could save you. Your dreams may seem to shatter. Certain experiences leave you baffled or disoriented. Rather than ask how whatever it is could happen, step back and consider 5 ways apparent misery actually helps you;

1) It invites you to change direction. Discomfort is a wake-up call. Why do you choose to struggle? to perceive chaos? As you stop thinking, you find you still exist. Thoughts distract you from self-acceptance you have always had.

2) It is an opportunty to refocus. As you realize you misinterpret and distort situations, even blow them out of proportion, you realize you can shift your perspective. This discovery enables you to regain inner power.  This is an opportunity to teach the self what it means to be unconcerned.

3) It draws attention to mental patterns.  Suddenly, you realize you have choices to experience anguish or non-anguish.  You feel devastated by explosive energy or, increasingly present and aware of what matters. Either you must disappear or sources of undesirable thoughts must go.  What is shrinking?

4) It reminds you who is master. How long have you conceded to leave the mind in charge? To realize the mind is an passive instrument and you are the master changes everything. Learn to put mind in line.  Mind cannot assert without your consent. As you tame it, inner violence ceases.

5) It confirms bliss is ever-present. As you detach from mind influence, you rediscover what else exists. In this way, misery is a teacher.  To move beyond mind as an obstacle is to realize it is also an opening to joy. You sense the mind is a passage for whatever energy you choose to attract, allow and accept.

Comments

[Loving Annie]

Misery actually serves to tell me that I am off track with something I believe to be real. Spirit does not intend for me to live in or with misery. When misery is present, I am not seeing something clearly. When I learn what my soul needs to heal and grow, contentment and strength take the place of misery and self-hate.

[Natürliche Momente]

It may be good here to mention that pain or discomfort in the body is directly related to pain experienced in the mind too. So if one finds tension in the muscles or poor ciruculation or disease, it is a direct consequence to blocks in natural energy flow and negative thinking. Therefore, it is always a good practice to process one's thoughts and feelings as they arise so they can be digested and processed through and out of the body leaving one with an energized mind, body, and soul.

[Liara Covert]

Annie, to acknowledge misery is an illusion is a step toward not acknowledging it at all. As one ceases to channel energy into an idea, then that idea cannot exist. You must believe in something to give it power and control over you. It is a proces to remove all mental, physical and emotional attention. Yet, its possible.

[Liara Covert]

Natural Moments, your remark reminds readers of the inter-connectedness of everything. To begin to sense energy is to begin to understand how you think and feel relates to a formless or non-physical dimension. To recognize a feeling exists in the physical implies the energy to create it was in another form before. In a similar way, symptoms of physical illness arise in progressive stages. The nature of energy moves from balance to imbalance in unseen realms before one manifests symptoms in the physical world. As you say, mind, body and spirit are energy. As one learns to transmute energy more consciously, one is empowered to heal from within.

[dadshouse]

Love your comment about healing from within. I think that's key. So many people look externally for ways to escape miserable feelings. They look for that kind word from a parent or friend or lover, or to some material thing. I do believe support groups can be valuable, but ultimately the healing has to come from within.

I find that focusing my awareness on energy blockages or imbalances in my body helps to ease whatever misery is roiling within. I find reiki is an effective tool when I'm unable to articulate the problems. Just focusing awareness and reiki energy can help.

[Liara Covert]

dadshouse, thanks for your insight. As you say, a variety of methods can help a person deal with emotional discomfort. As you evolve to connect consistently with your inner body, this enables you to tap into vibrational frequencies and choose to increase the flow of energy. At higher energy levels, negativity no longer affects you and you naturally attract more reason to reinforce higher frequencies. Reiki is a useful tool. Use whatever reconnects you to what matters. Choices are endless.

[C. Om]

Excellent insight! Thank you for sharing this.

[Liara Covert]

C.Om, some beings are convinced universal peace will re-establish itself. Peace is relative to energy vibration on a particular level. You sense inner voices share wisdom you had overlooked before now. Your level of wisdom and knowledge shapes how and what you see every moment.