It is not always within our control to make changes in ourselves. Deep rooted habits often need the patience of a lifetime to root themselves out from us. Superficial changes like changing the way you eat or choosing to exercise this much if done out of pure will power will not pass the test of time if they are overriding something deeper in us. If the root is rotten, these changes will be a form of violence against ourselves.
A cycle perpetuates itself between “how I actually am” and “how I should be”. This cycle is violent because it negates and seeks to bypass how we actually are in this moment. And being with how things are in ourselves in their raw honesty is many times too uncomfortable for us to bear before the mechanism of wanting to change fix or heal comes in. This mechanism is our will power. And it does not have the power to heal. It only prolongs the perpetuating cycle of getting off and on the wagon.
True healing has to come from a deeper place. A place beyond our jurisdiction. The jurisdiction of trying to make superficial surface changes to something which lives at the root of us. And that which we cannot see clearly for ourselves.
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