I work consciously every day with many of your suggestions to overcome inner resistance. But I have a longstanding progressive illness that I don't know how to "crack." I have gone through major life changes and so have been exposed to a lot of stress but have worked to let go of them. However, the intense pain of my physical condition just seems to worsen... would you have any thoughts on this?...

Guy Finley explains that you can never be free of anything you resist. In order to transcend any pain or problem, you must meet it completely, as you are, and accept what life is trying to give you so that you can grow into a new order of yourself.

I work consciously every day to overcome inner resistance, doubts, etc., but there is one thing that I don't know how to crack... that is tension and intense body pain that began early in my life that just seems to worsen over time...would you have any thoughts on this?...

I have had an incurable disease for 10 years, and have gone through many treatments for chronic physical pain. As a result, I'm wiped out financially and can't work. I am not seeking sympathy, rather would like to deepen my surrender... which is all I live for anymore. When the pain gets overwhelming, I can't observe it anymore, and this opens the door for fear.

Guy explains how we must use our attention properly to prevent identification with physical pain from causing psychological pain.

Topics covered: pain, resisting pain, physical body, suffering of nature, pain of birth, shoulder your share, aspirant, unceasing rebirth, clarity of ""I Am"", imagined escape, true detachment...

Topics covered: Anything that talks to you about a time to come, other than practical thought, is setting you up for a fall; Human beings are meant to be a finely tuned instrument; You are a captive of trying to free yourself from captivity; Anything a human being wants to escape owns them; The pain that you suffer, regardless of its physical or mental source, has very little to do with the pa...

Topics covered: I had a stressful experience at the hospital recently; What is the meaning of 'You cannot serve two masters for you will love one and despise the other'; Why do I feel pressure to act a certain way; I'm attached to my pain; What is your view on destiny; How do you 'will' physical pain; Learning that what I feel is not True I; Life begins and ends in mystery, and death makes no...

I work consciously every day with many of your suggestions to overcome inner resistance, doubts, etc., but I have one problem I don't know how to crack... as a 7 year old kid I developed juvenile rheumatoid arthritis. Until age 21 I followed medical protocol but since then I have wanted to work with this illness mainly as an emotional, energetic problem. Twenty years later I have had mostly go...

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In this answer to a viewer's question, "Secret of Letting Go" author Guy Finley explains that -- spiritually and psychologically speaking -- the only thing that makes us feel inadequate is resistance to the condition that we find ourselves in.

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