Why do we tend to resist great love, joy or sorrow? When the emotions begin to well up in us, we walk away, we make ourselves busy, we numb, we scroll, we indulge. We find a way to escape the moment because it just too intense.
Maybe we are afraid the emotion will take us over. Maybe we think it won’t last, and it easier to end it before it ends on its own. Maybe we don’t think we can handle the intensity of the suffering, or we don’t deserve the immense love.
Yet, as Richard Rohr tells us along with so many others, transformation occurs through great love and suffering. We just have to be present to it.
In our pause today we will identify the mechanism we use to resist these feeling of intense love, joy, and sorrow. We will determine if this mechanism serves us, and then let it go. For our Listen portion of the pause, we will be using a practice called Imago Divina – or divine image. Finding an image in our present surroundings that represents glimpses of great love and joy.
For more information on this podcast: angiewinn.com/pause
