I am grateful for early warning signs. The nerve endings in our fingertips tell us when something is hot or cold, early warning signs of what we need to do . Our emotions prick us negatively or positively, early warning signs of what we need to do.

Low vibration emotions are always a result of limiting decisions we have made about ourselves in the past. It’s okay! Those early decisions were usually a survival instinct and were very useful back then. 

In a child abuse situation, a decision that I should shut down my voice because I will get hit if I speak up, keeps us alive! But at some point in the future, when we are an adult and no longer under the rule of our abuser, it is time to let go of that survival instinct and choose a new decision.

Our pain receptors that tell us we are feeling fear, indicate there is still a survival instinct that is ruling that area of our lives. Those warning signs are telling us we need to do something.

Physical pains can be an indication that an early warning sign was ignored. The good news is we can still find the root cause and fix it if we are willing. An old pain could be related to some old decisions. 

New pains are more easily avoided. If we can catch the early warning signs and take care of the new decisions are making now, we can avoid the physical pain entirely. These emotional pains are just trying to get our attention. If we don’t listen, physical is harder to ignore, so that is the next level if that is what it takes to make you take notice.

Our pain is not caused by our challenges, but our decisions about the challenges. A challenge of abuse may cause physical or emotional bruises in the moment, but it only becomes a lifelong pain that we carry with us if we decide that we are helpless or that we must protect ourselves, or any number of other decisions about ourselves.

Pain can be viewed as a beautifully cut diamond. Some edges must be cut off to create those reflective facets. Some polishing on a rough grinding stone is necessary if we are to shine brilliantly.

Through pain we become the forgiver and the forgiven. We experience the height and depth of emotion on both ends of the spectrum. Just as the most colorful and coveted diamond catches the light from all sides, through the pain of shaping and polishing under the Master’s touch, we can become reflective of the pure light of hope and healing.

New Ideas to Consider

• I am a diamond
• I am beautiful
• I am patient beneath the Master’s hand
• I am open to being shaped, polished and perfected
• I respond immediately to early indications that some shaping is needed
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