How to Be With Pain
Meditation re Head, Heart, and Womb Pain
In a recent session with a client, we were to look at the question ‘how to be with pain’ from three different areas in the body: the head, the heart, and the womb.
Going into parallel meditations, she received her own guidance, while I received these writings. When we shared them, we realized there was a lot of resonance between our different approaches. She got single words (which I did not include here) while I tend to get longer messages. Within our shared field an amplified understanding occurred that served both of us, in complementary yet distinctly different ways.
Being with head-pain:
Lift the lid. Do not compress. Breathe fresh air. Focus on feet — moving, walking, dancing… to shift energy. Not too much meditation. We are composting dead thought patterns, personal and collective. Let them go. Do not invest in maintaining or sustaining them.
Being with heart-pain:
Stay with it. Let it carve new vessels in your feeling capacity. You will not die! Your heart is designed to transform pain, prima materia, into gold. But you must feel it fully before the transformation begins. Then steadiness as the work is done by Sophia in you, not by you! That is essential. Not collapsing. Not fixing. Not contracting. Not shying away. Witnessing, holding gently, like a colicky baby — rocking, soothing trusting, loving. Humming helps.
Being with womb-pain:
Do not stuff it with food, sex, busyness, distraction, flared emotions, ambitious aspirations. Honour what you do not know. Lean into what is missing. Look at the night sky; there is so much more beyond this earth. Womb pain is from a disconnected, torn umbilical cord with the Cosmos, with Sophia, with the Great Mystery. To feel this pain is a holy beginning of reconnection. The Earth is calling, commanding, compelling a turn in focus. Breathe into your womb and welcome the Mystery, without seeking immediate understanding.