Obstacles/Problems/Pain
Contraction or Expansion
Exhaustion or Inspiration
86400 seconds a day
Hmmm, how's it going to be spent?
Difficulties are about what we care about
Our thoughts are a tool
Mind hates to be present
Evolved to keep us safe
My thoughts, my fears, my past experience
pasted to my face
Covering my eyes so they are all I can see,
While my dogs and cats
The fish the birds
they are all laughing at me.
Self is contact
Self is content
Swimming in a sea of thoughts
Emotional weather always changing
Tug of war, to and fro, trying to make the anxiety go
If I spend my 86400 seconds a day
trying to make the pain go away
No time
to live my life
"Pain is inevitable
Suffering is optional "
Showing up for my awareness
If I'm not living my life
I'm living my fear
Old life
Old values
Living the life I care about now
Compassion for others
Self compassion
Feelings and thoughts are like the weather and
The wind it just blows everywhere.
"Pain is inevitable..." has been attributed to Buddha, however the minimal research I did says he never said that and it appears to be from A.A.
This poem is based on the concepts of Acceptance Commitment Therapy. Many thanks for the language and inspiration to John and Jamie Forsyth.