The Greatest Motivator Of All

It’s said that pain is the great motivator. We don’t move much in our lives without it. Our lives feel comfortable enough and good enough when we’re not pressed against pain. Comfort and “good enough” are the one thing that’s worse than whatever is causing the pain. But our minds are deeply rooted in the way we think. Our thought patterns are etched in our “let’s do it the easy way” second nature. We don’t have to think much about life, we just roll along. This is why pain moves us. I know it did for me. Years back, the emotional and mental anguish I experienced was completely unbearable. There was no way I could continue if things didn’t change. I didn’t see the change I needed coming from the outside world, and I had no support, so, with no help to turn to but myself, I made a commitment to grow and become better. I wanted to be at least one part of humanity that was working on bettering myself. My logic was, like the “butterfly effect”, that one would, in essence, affect the whole. I hoped that others would choose a path of Inner Healing as well, even when they thought they didn’t need it.

Many ask, but few do anything to change it, “How can we make the world a better place?”

If we don’t start with ourselves, then this world will remain one of pointing fingers and attempts at control. We will remain in our negative subconscious loops if we think that an organization or a belief will change this world. It’s all about discovering ourselves instead. When we understand ourselves, we can understand others and open our minds to loving them and their differences instead of wanting them to think like us, instead of choosing to leak our inner tragedies all over them, or all over the next guy…

~Janice M. Burke

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