Rory is in terrible physical pain just before her big presentation.
She keeps saying how upset she is: “I’m so pathetic to have manifested this now.
I should be enjoying this moment and yet here I am, incapacitated. I just can’t let myself have the good stuff I create. I’m so angry with myself. And it really hurts!”
It’s hard to listen to her being so unkind to herself.
I venture to ask her the Love question, unsure as to whether she can even hear it in this moment of self-flagellation, but surprisingly she does.
She asks me to explain a bit more and then she’s quiet for a while, thinking.
Finally she speaks.
“If I loved myself, I would tell myself, ‘It’s OK.’”
Her answer seems so short and simple I’m not sure she’s understood the concept, but then after a few beats she adds,
“It’s OK that I got hurt at this time.
It’s OK.
I’m not bad or stupid. It’s just where I am right now.
It’s my pattern. I’m working on it.
It’s OK. I’m OK.”
If you loved yourself, what would you say to yourself about something that is causing you pain now?
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