A Nail in the Kneecap

Why do we do the work to clean up our mental and emotional baggage?Why, because it is very difficult to be spiritual with a nail in your kneecap.It is also hard to feel gratitude or love, it is hard to care about what is happening even to the people you care about.  It is hard to enjoy your food or your vacation.  We rarely feel creative, want to write a book, reinvigorate our career or renew our marriage vows.  It is hard to keep commitments, enjoy music or quiet time.With a nail in our kneecap we are looking for distractions, we want to be numbed out, check out, hide out, we become needy, selfish, fearful, angry, frustrated, we lash out at the people we love, who love us.Some of us are so strong that we can take it and look like it doesn’t bother us; we may even believe it ourselves.  We create all sorts of ways to cope and we create beliefs that say life is just like that or we become victims; sad and bitter or we decide to be happy anyway and put on a happy face and ignore the pain.Liberation from pain is where it all begins. There is such joy when it comes out, when we feel the relief. In liberation we free the energy to do the things that need to be done, we get buoyant, loving, and feel the energy to create beauty and harmony around us.