In Some Ways Suffering Ceases To Be Suffering At The Moment It Finds Meaning

For me this quote from Viktor Frankl speaks to the central truth of stress reduction, and how reducing our suffering is actually a service to the world. Frankl was a brilliant Jewish psychiatrist who survived living through prison camps including Auschwitz. In the process of the experience he asked himself why some were able to make live through the experienced others were not. He went on to create his process called logotherapy, or healing through meaning. Those that survived were able to find meaning.

This provides us with a clue in our own healing journey. In these 40 days we are connecting to a sense of mission, The mission to observe ourselves as an audience member as well as a participant. How do we calm? How do I get better at calming? What do I get upset about habitually? How can I be more clear in my speech and not to exaggerate my challenge? 

If we do not have this mission, if we feel powerless and in a futile, doomed situation. It is clear what happens. What is happening is what happens. We find more hostility, more living without a code of honor. More fear, more aggression and more tribalism. When there is not a mission to serve we are drawn toward drowning fear with addictions related to  hatred or pleasure.  

We take learning to live in peace as our mission.  In learning to be more present we find our intuition flowing through us with grace beyond our capability or understanding. We are able to breathe and be in joy, even in the midst of ugliness. The power being in contact with our mission. It translates itself through each of us in different ways, and yet it always has the same message.  Be right here, right now. 

Let go of suffering by talking on a sense of mission. Make it your mission to learn to gradually calm down. Make it your mission to radiate kindness, compassion , joy and positive indifference into the world. Listen very closely to the rhythm of your own heart. Set limits but do not forget to rejoice. Rejoice! There is something in humanity that is good and your mission is to keep it alive. This is the meaning. Rejoice!