The End of Suffering? ©2014 Brent Phillips http://www.awakeningdynamics.com Day 1: Why Do We Suffer? One of our most powerful motivations to pursue spiritual practices is to lesser or eliminate suffering. After all, most of us experience lives filled with a never-ending parade of various flavors of suffering, including physical suffering, emotional suffering, economic/money suffering, and…
Anna Hunt from WakingTimes.com writes: A research team out of University of Colorado-Boulder has found that prescription opioids may actually worsen chronic pain. The study also discovered that these drugs may in fact prolong the condition that they are supposed to help placate. This may explain why in the U.S., prescriptions of opioids, such as…
Ben Schwalb from My Empowered World writes: Most of our suffering is self-inflicted. How does this happen? It all starts with desire: we want something. Then we make a leap from desire to belief: we believe that our desire should be fulfilled. We “should” lose weight. We “should not” eat that dessert. Someone “should” invite us to…
Josh Richardson of AwakeningPeople.com writes: Pain is first energy, second perception, and third physical manifestation. There is no other source of pain but energetic. Physical presentation is always secondary. Every single origin of pain in our bodies can be traced back to a specific emotional state which functions to warn us that there is still work…