Inner Practice: Beautifully Broken

We have all been broken before and the feeling sucks. A death, an accident, a break up, a betrayal, a loss, a disappointment, a failure, a misjudgment. And when it happens, we feel like the world is an evil place to be in and we just want out. Any possible way. Just out.

And as we move forward in life, we carry the scars from the deep slashes we sustained and we thread through life with self-protecting strategies, formulated since evolution by our genius human body to keep us alive even after being crippled by life, time and again. Some of us take on the survival scheme of numbness, being immune to any emotions, bad or good, sad or happy. Some of us become closed up, not welcoming any new experiences for the sake of self preservation. We close off to people, to experiences, to memories, to pain, to happiness, to love. We take on the cold mental fa?ade of “I’d rather have peace than to be hurt again.”

We work really hard, get ourselves really exhausted to mask off the sensations of the actual searing pain. With time, the traumas are buried deep down. Well hidden. But not healed.? We seem functional on the outside, yet we are rotting and screaming inside. We smile and laugh, yet we are tearing and bleeding within.

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