Each of us carries a certain amount of pain from birth. Moreover, if the pain is not healed and transformed, it actually increases as we grow older, and we transmit it to others.
We must deal with it by acknowledging and owning our own pain, rather than projecting it elsewhere. Contemplative practice helps us develop the capacity to watch our self and connect with our loving Inner Witness.
If we can observe the negative pattern in our self, we have already begun to separate from it. Unless we can become the watcher, we will always identify with our feelings and believe they are real and objective truth.
People who overly identify with their thoughts and feelings do not really have feelings; their feelings have them! This is how we are possessed; the devil demands that we take feelings very seriously. This is why all healing and prayer must descend into the unconscious where the lies we have believed are hidden in our wounds.
During contemplation, forgotten painful experiences will arise. Over a period of practice, contemplation gradually helps us detach from who we think we are and rest in our authentic identity as Love.
2 Timothy 2:26 “Then they will come to their senses and escape from the devil’s trap. For they have been held captive by him to do whatever he wants.”
