Gateways: A Center for Healing

“As long as you try to stop a pain, you’re repressing part that needs to be expressed. That is the cause of pain. The cause of pain is not allowing who you are to express, in some way or some element of life. As long as you try to stop pain, and/or judge pain as being wrong you’re not being WITH pain. Just like someone is angry all the time is not really EVER angry. They are in the mind, they are in the concept of anger, if they actually FELT the anger they would punch something, they’d yell and in a couple of moments it would be OVER. Remember, the emotional brain controls the threshold of excitability of every sensory and motor neuron of the body. So, if someone is bound-up they are not being honest with themselves, simple.”
--Donny Epstein