World View Perspective: Equal to the pain, we chase the cure
When we are in pain or in fear, we might do anything to find the cure and chase it for all its worth! Often, to extremes! When we practice extremes of any kind, however, we get out of balance and get into unhealthy loops of behavior! Such as a stressful day of work means extra wine at dinner! Or a change in finances means more chocolate, as if we’re compromising! What we want is to heal, to rebalance, to find a way to feel better! To not lean this way or that, but rather to find, maintain or sustain that middle ground! To ground ourselves back to who we are! To be in a human physical body means we have many experiences to go through for our maturity, growth and expansion! We are, after all, here to learn! Not all our experiences are pleasant or worth repeating and it may be years later that it occurs to us, maybe we shouldn’t have gone that direction at all! Waking up from this process may mean judging ourselves harshly, condemning...