If you’re looking to change for the better, feel your pain. This is the most simple advice I can offer. If you step on a nail, make sure you feel it, so you step off the nail. If you take a pain killer when there’s a nail in your foot, things get worse. Pain is there to remind you what not to do. Pain is a guardian, not a goblin. This simple strategy for feeling your pain involves removing all sedation based substances from your life full stop. Caffeine, sugar, nicotine, alcohol, marijuana, narcotics, processed foods, wheat, milk and most medical drugs are PROVEN pain killers. Get brave and get ready to face your life, in its truest form. Ditch the fantasy and give reality a try. If your life is boring, repetitive, directionless, empty and meaningless right now……..wait until you remove the sedative pain killers from your daily habits. If you thought your life sucked before, wait until you feel your insane life in its full suckness. You won’t be able to stand it…..and that’s when you’ll finally CHANGE. The “average Joe” life of mindless conformity is boring and it’s boring for a reason…..so you get off your rump and do something MORE. A regular life of “going along to get along” is PAINFUL and it’s that pain that can help you move quicker toward your dream life. The pain is there to let you know what you don’t want, so you know EXACTLY what you do want. Without feeling the pain as your guide, you never get clear on where to go in life.

Addictions and sedative substances TAKE AWAY our power to change and trap us in lives we don’t want to be living….because they steal the gift of our pain. The moment I removed all addictions from my life is the day I said to myself, “this life is meaningless and it’s too painful to live in, so changing is the only option. Either I change or I double down on the sedative illusion and distraction based fantasy…..which I know provides temporary gratification yet doesn’t produce any long term happiness.” I decided to feel my pain and made small changes over time, which built “a better life”. Feeling how much my life really sucked, helped me obtain a laser like focus for the life I really wanted to be living. I got clear on what I wanted by getting clear on what I hated. True story. May the bravery find you in order that you quit your sedation, feel your pain and start building a life that’s more satisfying. Don’t be pain adverse. Bring it on and soak in the messages that only pain can bring. Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can. One life. One time at bat. Swing for the fences. It’s about progress, not perfection. A journey of 1000 miles starts with one small baby step in the right direction. Knowledge is power. Power up. Power to the people.

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