Taking ownership, response-ability

Aug 02, 2025

Dear Readers,

You are most welcome.

The idea of taking ownership over your pain could seem frightening or overwhelming.

Perhaps downright unjustified. Why should I?

Maybe a deep belief exists that someone or something will solve the problem. Fix it. Fix you.

Take a moment to examine your beliefs.

What do you believe to be the cause of your pain?

What do you believe to be the way forward?

What happens when you take ownership?

At the right time, this happens.

Usually when you begin to understand your pain—the true causes.

That is why we start there.

With understanding you can employ right thinking, right view, right speech and right action to live yourself better.

This is true for any suffering.

You know what you can and cannot control, and focus on the former.

This feels very different.

I have purposely broken down the word.

Responsibility.

You have the ability to respond to what is happening.

What is happening is life turning up as it does.

That you have no control over. Life simply appears for you.

How you respond?

That is within your control.

Currently you will have automatic ways.

Some may serve you and be wholesome and be taking along your path towards waking up and health.

Others may not.

Becoming aware, you can increasingly water the right seeds.

There are infinite possibilities.

They are only apparent when you are present and awake.

Consider, how do I respond to pain when it appears?

Do these ways help me? Are they taking me down a path of living myself better?

If not, a change is necessary. A shift.

This is what pain is asking you to do.

Onwards 🚀

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