Condas pain speech

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“Sounds like you're all feelin' pain. How to heal pain? Just be with it. Don’t run from it, don’t wallow in it, don’t try to stop it. Just be with it. Everyone is wounded. Start seeing other people’s wounds behind their words and actions. Someone hurt them, too. Those who hurt you, were also wounded. It doesn’t make what they did right, that’s just the way it is. See, we all got pain. The first step to dealin' with it is introspection. Know thyself. Investigate yourself. Do it during your downtime, when you're not so busy. I'm tellin' you, the first step is to perform the action of Investigating yourself during your downtime. What you're going to find there is very important.

Now, what to do with this pain after you find it? Do you let it drive you? Do you let it consume you? Do you pass it on to someone else? It wants to pass on, and when it does, it leaves you for a while. It’s a relief, but a temporary one. See, all attempts to manipulate pain -- to deny it, run from it, kill it -- only end in more pain. So what do you do, if you really want to heal? Look at it. Pay attention to it. Don't try to change it. Feel it, but don’t drown in it. Hold its hand, just a little. Give it the room it needs, but don’t let it take over. It doesn't own you, but you don't own it, either. There, you see – when you're with the pain, you can feel its root, why it’s there. You accept it, as something there. And when you do, it doesn’t hurt so much. You accept it, and let time do the rest. Take a deep breath, now. You got a long way to go."