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It is important when pain comes our way to honor the experience, as it is usually a great teacher. Honoring the experiences we have in our lives is an invaluable
way to communicate with life, our greatest teacher. We do this when we take
time at night to say what we are thankful for about our day and also when we
write in a journal. Both of these acts involve consciously acknowledging the
events of our lives so that they deepen our relationship to our experiences.
This is important because it brings us into closer connection with life, and
with the moment. Only when we acknowledge what's happening to us can we truly
benefit from life's teachings. It is especially important when pain comes our way to honor the experience,
because our natural tendency is to push it away and move past it as quickly
as possible. We tend to want to brush it under the rug. Yet, if we don't, it
reveals itself to be a great friend and teacher. As counterintuitive as it
seems, we can honor pain by thanking it and by welcoming it into the space of
our lives. We all know that often the more we resist something, the longer it
persists. When we honor our pain, we do just the opposite of resisting it,
and as a result, we create a world in which we can own the fullness of what
life has to offer.
We can honor a painful experience by marking it in some way, bringing
ourselves into a more conscious relationship with it. We might mark it by
creating a work of art, performing a ritual, or undertaking some other
significant act. Sometimes all we need to do is light a candle in honor of
what we've gone through and what we've learned. No matter how small the
gesture, it will be big enough to mark the ways in which our pain has
transformed us, and to remind us to recognize and value all that comes our
way in this life.
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