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		<title>Overcoming Emotional Pain</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[After many years struggling with the pain of break-ups and other life altering emotional pains, I had an epiphany the other day that I&#8217;d like to share.
If something is causing you pain, Let Go Of It!
That&#8217;s it&#8230;  It took me years to figure that one out&#8230; I should have listened to myself as a child [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>After many years struggling with the pain of break-ups and other life altering emotional pains, I had an epiphany the other day that I&#8217;d like to share.</p>
<p><strong>If something is causing you pain, Let Go Of It!</strong></p>
<p>That&#8217;s it&#8230;  It took me years to figure that one out&#8230; I should have listened to myself as a child with the stove.  Let&#8217;s think about it though.</p>
<p>Physically, if you were to grab a hot pan, what would you do?  You&#8217;d get it out of your hand as soon as possible, right?  Does this mean you&#8217;ll never use or relate to that pan again?  Hardly&#8230; it just caused a pain in you that was undesirable, so you let it go.</p>
<p>It is the same thing with emotional pain&#8230; you don&#8217;t stop feeling or loving or expressing, you just let go of whatever it is that&#8217;s causing the pain.</p>
<p>This can be difficult as most people confuse how they feel for who they are.  You are not your emotions.</p>
<p>Pain is often a teacher that helps us to realize what we need to grow and heal&#8230; Hence, why we tend to repeat painful lessons over and over again, until we&#8217;ve finally learned them.  Often we become addicted to the emotional pain/depression, and like a drug addict (which is literally what&#8217;s happening to your brain chemistry), every time we begin to feel ok again, we trigger a memory or something else that sends us spiraling into emotional pain again, and our brain gives us a chemical fix for that depressing feeling.</p>
<p>In the same way that a drug addict has to detox and quit the habit, if you&#8217;ve become addicted to the buzz of your emotional misery, than you&#8217;ll need to quit as well.</p>
<p>How do you do this?  A Higher Power always helps (hence why it&#8217;s part of the programs NA &amp; AA), and then you take responsibility for your thoughts.</p>
<p>When your thoughts begin to stray down a path that you know will tear open the healing wound and cause you pain, you simply don&#8217;t go there anymore&#8230; You let go of it, or maybe a better way of looking at it, is <strong>You Stop Holding On To It.</strong></p>
<p>In the end, it all still comes down to healthy thoughts.  Garbage In, Garbage Out&#8230;  You are what you think you are&#8230;  and you truly are what you eat (literally, it&#8217;s what your body is physically made of).</p>
<p>Much Love and Sunshine!  <img src='http://johnkowalsky.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_surprised.gif' alt=':o' class='wp-smiley' /> )&#8230;<strong>Similar Posts:</strong>
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