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Kidney Stones of the Mind - 1/3

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What happens when you hold on to your pee for a long time? And you get into the habit of doing it continuously many times, over and over again? Stones, right? Kidney stones. And how does this affect you? It blocks, it creates pain, immense pain in the lower stomach. So much pain, that one might prefer to die at that moment than bear it.


So, what do you think happens when you get into the habit of holding on to your emotions? When you start bottling up all your feelings, bit-by-bit? 



Initially you might feel, ‘how does it even matter?’, ‘my opinion doesn’t matter’, ‘let's just focus on what’s ahead of me and keep moving on.’ The worst thing to say to yourself is ‘it’s just a phase and it will get over soon’.

But do you know something, it matters. The emotions keep piling up and even before you realize it, it starts affecting you. You may feel it’s okay, ‘I am okay’. But are you? It is affecting your mental and emotional health. And this practice at some point will create pain, a lot of pain, so much that one might prefer to die at that moment than bear it.

Just as the process in which kidney stones are created (in physical body), these piled up emotions come together blend into concentrated form and transform into huge stones, the weight of which is difficult to carry.

 "A kidney stone is a solid mass made up of tiny crystals", says Google. Bit-by-bit , all these negative emotions which gets stored, comes together and snowballs into a huge boulder, enough to crumble you to pieces. 

What is the process to dissolve these kidney stones of the mind? 

What is the solution? 


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