Meeting Pain
"Sitting with her until my heart bloomed"
Published on: 4th Sept 2025

Pain is alive. It enters our lives fully, unmistakable — sometimes emotional, sometimes physical, always real. And yet, all our lives, we try to run from it. We are rarely taught how to meet it, how to sit with it, how to honour it.

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I have carried my share of heartbreaks. My heart has been broken countless times. Yet, one day, I chose to follow the path my teachers spoke of — the path of watching, of observing, of simply being with the pain instead of fleeing.

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I remember my teacher saying: “When pain is truly met, the heart will bloom.”

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One night, I was curled in my bed, in emotional pain, and I chose to observe, to lean into it, to be with it fully. That night, I slept with my pain like a baby in her mother’s arms — tenderly, wholly, without fear. Slowly, like shy petals opening in spring, the bloom appeared. My heart opened. Tenderness unfurled.

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I could understand pain. I had sat with her before, explored her stories, learned techniques, and honed practices over years of therapy and shadow work. Yet this was different. This time, I felt ready — not just intellectually, not just with tools, but in my body, in my heart, in my being. I was ready to meet her fully.

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Finally, I aligned with my teacher’s words. I listened deeply when he spoke about love — about the intensity and devotion Saint Teresa of Ávila felt in her union with God. In that stillness, I understood: pain and love are not separate. They are two sides of the same awakening, and in meeting one fully, the other is revealed.

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Pain, when fully met, transforms. It opens the heart. Awakens the soul. Reminds us that we are alive, fragile, fierce, and utterly divine.

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~ Sacred Divine Align ~