From suffering to success

Words TROY HAINES

As someone who grew up with an acute sense of suffering, I know what it’s like to move through the ebbs and flows of suffering.

For me at times, I felt expansive and in those times I could see where I was going, but then at other times, something would inevitably trigger a mental shift within and the mind would take hold and draw me down into a place of suffering. Unresolved emotional trauma that we experienced, but hadn’t effectively processed (because it’s not something most of us are taught, right?!), which results in that emotional trauma being stored in the cells of the body. It’s when a thought or incident triggers that wound that the trauma releases energy into our body, taking over our attention and our consciousness.

I felt that sense of suffering until around 35 (I’m now 43). It hurts and can drive all sorts of behaviour that’s unsupportive to our well-being. If you’re someone who experiences any sense of what I am talking about then my compassion, heart and love goes out to you.

I wonder at this point how others experience suffering?

For me the suffering was so acute that my #1 goal in life (until 2012) was to move beyond it… to move beyond suffering! To that end, I am a success in this lifetime.

Our beliefs shape our reality. What do you believe that contributes to your suffering or not? Here are some of my key beliefs which helped guide me out of suffering:

• Remembering who I am. I’m an energetic being, here having a human experience.

• When broken down, everything is energy. Energy can’t be created nor destroyed, it can only change forms, so effectively nothing is ever truly lost.

• That energy has an intelligence, I call it consciousness… it can be seen all around us in nature. I am that! I am an expression of consciousness, not separate, but connected as energy. I am that, we all are that!

• In this form we are the latest biological technology evolved on this planet, having a human experience. You/I get to have this experience so that consciousness can experience/learn through this expression of itself/ourself. What a gift!

• In the infinite time since the big bang (and beyond) this human experience is such a speck of time and soon enough I’ll (we will) drop this form and return back to the intelligence that created everything… so why would I suffer through this experience?!

• I am that… I am not the mind… in this human form I have access to a mind and I have access to a body. The constant stream of thinking, mental stories, emotions that is the mind, is a tool to master and use to shape our 3-dimensional reality.

• Daily meditation gives me the SPACE from the mind so as to practise mastery of it. I have much more to learn here.

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