…and do you know how many of us try to be someone, ANYONE other than who we are?
Our inability to accept who we are and to believe in our perceived shortcomings, keeps us emulating others and striving to live their life. We believe the ‘grass is greener’ in almost everyone else’s backyard – and that who we are is undesirable.
But we can not be anyone other than who we are. The more we try, the greater the repercussions to our well-being physically, emotionally, mentally, and/or spiritually.
Spiritual suffering is the most difficult to define and acknowledge. It has a broad overbearing quality to its presence, and a nebulous vague quality to its definition. Here are three possible symptoms of spiritual suffering:
1. Overriding feelings of loss
2. A disturbing sense of disconnection
3. An unsettling perception of being abandoned or forsaken in life
If not addressed, spiritual suffering will continue to descend into our lives as mental suffering which will manifest as confusion, a lack of discernment, or poor decision making.
One step further into manifestation would be emotional suffering. It will manifest as depression or anger – defending on our psychology or mood.
Physical suffering is pain, dysfunction or disease in the part of the body at greatest risk. The nature of this risk will depend on the lifestyle of the individual.
For instance: If suffering is most often evidenced in relationships that unravel, there will be physical issues related to heart function. Here are a few more examples:
• Issues of Self-Love will become dysfunction or illness related to the pancreas.
• Poor decision making will become digestive problems.
• Not learning from mistakes or not processing them will translate into circulatory problems.
• Compartmentalizing and not integrating life experience will inevitably affect the neurological system.
By the time issues are manifest in physical suffering, they have been with us for a long time and are deeply entrenched in who we are and how they define us.
Suffering that is not resolved becomes chronic and can manifest in our lives in many ways. No matter what configures in any area of our lives, healing is a possibility when we choose to open your eyes to it and ask for help. We simply can not lead ourselves out of our suffering. We need new information or someone with that information to assist us in resolving our suffering.
More next week…
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Written by Corinne S. Ramage, Leader in True Wellness® Studies
Creator of The Spiritual Healthcare Network of online programs
Author of “The Art and Practice of True Wellness”
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