Peace with Injury
“Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears”~Marcus Aurelius
I have tried to put this quote into practice many times and I don’t feel that I gave it a fair chance. I feel that we are attached to our injuries for one reason or another. It gives us something to talk about, it keeps us in victim mode, it helps us to feel like we exist. But what if we wholeheartedly believed, without a doubt, that we are not our injuries? We are so much more. Could we chip away at the pains and hurts that we experience in our lives?
I know that Louise Hays, who wrote You Can Heal Your Life, has a comprehensive list of facets in our lives that correspond to certain illnesses or pains in our bodies. I believe I mentioned it here before on Nirvana Island. It might be good for us to revisit her list according to things that ail us and to see if we can detach from the root of the problem. We can choose to think of it as neither good or bad, but a fact of our lives, igure out the cause and forgive whatever we need to in order to let it go. It takes some work, it takes some relenting of the ego, but it will bring us more towards balance.
“GIve up all bad qualities in you, banish the ego and develop the spirit of surrender. You will then experience Bliss.”~Sri Sathya Sai BabaL
Tags: ego, injury, Marcus Aurelius, quotes, Sri Sathya Sai Baba, Yoga
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