Like many people you are focused on thinking. Thinking with your mind. Constantly judging what is good, bad, right or wrong. Mostly you judge your interaction with other people, so you can then judge yourself based on this. If something in this interaction is judged as wrong you assume you are wrong. And so you have less of a desire to interact again. When you spend all this time thinking, which is basically just judging, you spend a great deal…

The only thing you can do is to accept the pain. When you resist the pain you are creating more pain. If you can accept that it is there, that it might be there for a while, it will help ease the resistance that is creating the pain in the first place. The resistance might be resistance to something that is happening, or simply old wounds letting go of old pain, but either way it is there. What is, cannot…