I know this might seem like a massive and difficult step and far away from where we are when we are caught in the midst of our pain. Yet it is true and possible to move into a relationship with pain that is liberating and freeing, when we accept where we are, when we allow where we are to be here, another dimension can open and reveal the inherent beauty, freshness, bliss that is this present

moment unfolding now.

Including pain, rather than eliminating pain can become the doorway to the region of living in freedom with pain. Living in freedom with pain, we gradually move to a presence centric way of life rather than a pain centric way of life. The presence of this moment becomes the center of life, rather than the pain of life being the center of my life. Presence centric means spaciousness becomes a place where I can rest and be, rather than some limitation in my own contracted sense and view of pain.

Remembering to deeply breath in the midst of pain, is a portal, a doorway to living in freedom with pain. Our breath can bring us directly into an intimate and delicate sense of life, that is always right here, right now, that is always available right here, right now. I don’t have to change anything, go anywhere or solve anything. I can just open up to my own breath as the way into the dimension of freedom with pain. I can allow and trust that this breath will inform me as to what needs to happen next. Breath and breathing becomes a guide to a spacious freedom to be with pain. Breath and relaxation with whatever type of pain is here becomes the friends that I need to keep near, to allow to be with me, all the time, 24 / 7 when I am in pain.

When I am in touch with my breathing in a deep and rhythmical way I am in touch with the depth and rhythm of a deeper dimension of life than my personal physical pain. I am in touch with the depth and rhythm of a much deeper rhythm of life that I am a part. Of which I am an intimate part, of which I am supported, held and loved, as a part of this great rhythm of life. I learn to breath and connect with the great rhythm, I learn to trust that this can and will and does support my life, support all life, not matter what comes my way. Be it pain, be it pleasure. I am intimately connected to the depth of life through my very own breath in this moment now.

Try it, enter deeply into your own breath, enter into spaciousness the next time you are in pain.