Go Talk To Someone

"Almost everyone who undertakes a true spiritual path will discover that a profound personal healing is a necessary part of his or her spiritual process.  Wise spiritual practice requires that we actively address the pain and conflict of our lives in order to come to inner integration and harmony.  We cannot run from ourselves, so we do well to include any depression or loneliness that we feel in our meditation.   We should also remember that healing cannot come from ourselves alone.  Because many of our pains come from past relationships, it is through our experience of a wise and conscious relationship that these pains are healed.  These relationships become the grounds for our opening to compassion and freedom of the spirit for it's when we allow our darkest fears and worst dimensions to be witnessed and compassionately accepted by another that we learn to accept them ourselves."  Some Jack Kornfeld and some Stevie Seaweed

I always seem to be surprised when a spiritual meditation practice involves other people.  It's counterintuitive.  It's also surprising still to this day that this practice involves staring pain in the face.  That is SO not what an active alcoholic does, preferring to run like hell from anything unpleasant.  It's all good.  It's all part of the process, part of the plan.  The good, the bad, the pleasant, the painful, all of it, we get to and we have to experience all of it.  We'd hardly be human if we were spared these life lessons.