Take My Advice, I'm Not Using It

If you believe Healers, or Helpers(the term I prefer) have their shit together all the time you would be wrong. They're human too. They struggle as much as the rest of the world. 

I've been struggling lately. Some of my 'stuff' is physical, some of it's emotional, a lot of it is mental. The more I thought about my 'stuff' the worse it seemed to get. Why? Why am I suffering? What am I doing wrong? As I lay in bed last night with tears in my eyes I remembered Buddha.

Buddha believed that people suffer because they crave things. Money, vacations, fancy food, etc. He also taught that the root of suffering is attachment. He said there are three types of suffering:

• physical and mental suffering (sickness, old age, death)
• distress from impermanence (the pain of losing something or not getting what you want)
• existential suffering (the angst of being human)

Ok. Am I suffering because of physical challenges? Yes. But that's nothing new so what's the real problem. The real problem is my attachment to the body I once had and the things it was once able to do. I'm aging. My body is changing. It's supposed to! So what if I can't do ALL the things anymore?! 

This is why I'm suffering. I'm holding on so tightly to the past that there is no room for release and relief. 

It's only when we begin to let go that we can start to grow. 

Nothing stays the same. Nothing is permanent. Everything is changing, all the time. 

Today I feel better. Today I remind myself that there is so much more out there and waiting if I just let go and go with the flow. "For everything there is a season..."

Thanks Buddha