The Suffering

SUFFERING 

    What comes in your mind if you heard the word Suffering? Pain? torture? illness? No one could define the word suffering even when you have experienced it yourself. Suffering is not just about the physical affection but also mental. It’s more difficult to overcome it to the point that you choose to die rather than to live. But then it’s a choice. 

    Suffering starts in the painful past. They can develop a trauma or mental illness, but of course they can overcome it through different meditation. Mindfulness meditation can be very effective way to work to our minds, by practicing noticing our thoughts and feelings just as they are and gently stopping ourselves. There is a famous tag line “Change for the better.” Changes are always happening. Sometimes the changes are for the ‘Good’, sometimes it’s for the better, but we can never know the ultimate outcome of a change. If we can learn to lean into changes rather than resist it, we’ll find the possibility inherent in a situation.

    One of the sources of happiness is family or friends. The family that can give us strength and joy. They can be your doctor beside professional doctor. Joy is the source of your smile, sometimes as simple as finding the smile inside of us, even when life hurt can help us access that deep well of joy. It can hide your pain through that smile and make other people think that they are ok.

    Mother Teresa one’s said “One must really have suffered oneself to help others” Right then, sometimes suffering comes about because we’ve ground ourselves down into a rut. We are obsess over our loss and can’t seem to think of anything else. Whatever pain you are experiencing is unique to you, it helps to remember that all human beings share the capacity of joy and suffering. Having contact with someone else who is also having difficult time and offering them simple kindness can be a great antidote to our own suffering. Always remember that you are not the only one who suffers and you will not be the only one well, everyone is.