Dive Into Every Knothole
People usually come to see me because they are experiencing some intolerable situation that is causing pain. We can be grateful to pain because it is always pointing us back to the true path. Pain will increase as we wander away from truth and harmony until by default, we must return to it or suffer. Unfortunately, in our culture we tend to want to avoid pain as long as possible so we drug it or cope with it or find ways to ignore it, but it always keeps popping back out in some way (think whack-a-mole).The only real solution is to go into the pain. Often, it has to get bad before we are willing to do this. By the way, you don’t need pain to grow; it is simply a signal that lets you know things are out of balance.The reason that I offer ongoing mentoring is because it increases the amount of time a person spends in joy and harmony and decreases the amount of time in suffering. In ongoing mentoring, we seize opportunities to go into the pain, to go into the crisis or difficulty and we avoid reverting or giving in to the coping mechanisms already in place that have become a well-worn path. In ongoing mentoring we take all advantages to find what is in the way of freedom, joy and harmony and we regularly clear those issues to stay healthy and pain free, to stay on the path. Over time this is the path that becomes well-worn and being off of it feels hard and unfulfilling. But to get coached regularly you have to like to go through knotholes or at least be adventurous and curious enough to be willing.Going through knotholes is uncomfortable and you have to shed many things to go through them. If you stay away from the knotholes you will again start to accumulate stuff, you will loose your way again, and the next knothole will feel painful and difficult.My philosophy is to go through every knothole I can find; to address every pain and discomfort that is trying to lead me back to the path of harmony and joy. So I recommend searching out and diving into every knothole you can find and thereby learning to stay clear and unencumbered on your path. Every knothole leads to more joy.