Episode 100 of The Truth Hurts (HaEmet Ko’evet) | September 11 | 8:00 PM | ZOA House (Beit Tzioni America), Tel Aviv Get tickets (in Hebrew): tickets.zoatlv.co.il
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Everything in the universe either grows and develops or dies. Healing the wounds of our past is an important, perhaps even central, part of personal growth. As long as we’re trapped in a cycle of old pain, we can’t move forward, rise above it or identify with who we are at the level of the soul.
The details differ, but the pattern is familiar. We all carry a story from childhood, whether or not we remember it clearly. It may have been dramatic, or it may have seemed relatively small at the time. Each of us has at least one experience, and sometimes several, that left a traumatic imprint. Those imprints became limiting beliefs that quietly run our lives. The beliefs that make up our identity are among the strongest we hold.
We learn early to hide our feelings so we won’t feel vulnerable. All of us have experienced some form of injustice that shook us. As children, we’re still innocent, and we naturally turn to our parents for protection. Sometimes, though, our parents are the ones who hurt us. Even when they aren’t, let’s be honest: most of us didn’t have parents who were able to give us the emotional support we needed. Our instinct was to go into survival mode, suppressing our feelings as a coping mechanism.
If you don’t love yourself, you can’t love anything else. There is nothing outside you. It’s all you. Everything reflects something back to you. When you fight or resist something, you’re really resisting a part of yourself that you haven’t yet learned to recognize and accept.
When you love yourself, you can accept that everything that enters your life, especially what you don’t like, is an opportunity to learn. It’s a chance to clear the parts of yourself you find harder to love. Every event, person and situation brings important information meant to help you understand yourself more deeply and, above all, love yourself.
Your number-one task is to take care of yourself. You are the most important person in your own life. You’re the only person who has always been there and always will be, from the moment you wake up each morning until you go to sleep each night. You’ve been there for every moment of your life, both painful and joyful.
Your happiness and fulfillment are your responsibility. No one is coming to save you, and no one else can be there for you every moment. In the end, it always comes back to you.
Listen in and find out how it’s done.
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