When Does Inner Hurt Turn to Outer Hurt?

“If someone comes along and shoots an arrow into your heart, it’s fruitless to stand there and yell at the person. It would be much better to turn your attention to the fact that there’s an arrow in your heart…”― Pema Chödrön

This so true and yet how easy it is to turn our attention elsewhere instead to the hurt inside.  However the challenge, I find that sitting with my difficult to be with places inside eases them.  I just need to slow down enough to do just that.  How often do we clear the space and take the time to pay attention to our inner places?  We may notice that our habit is to focus our attention outward on doing, filling our lives with activity or judging others, blaming.  Our inner hurts and challenges are part of who we are, part of what makes us whole.  As is our inner joy and peace.

Focusing is a mindfulness based technique that helps turn our attention to those inner places and heal them.