“If things are painful and we cannot change them we can at least be confident that our pain will not last forever.”

In my case it is not PAIN; it is excruciating itchiness of the skin when I eat something that is not acceptable to my leaky gut.

“Often it is the thought that pain will never end that makes it seem unbearable.” Even that thought that this won’t last forever does not seem to lessen the ordeal especially when I am in bed already.

“Right understanding means feeling terrible. remembering PAIN is finite, and taking some solace from that remembering.”

In time I will learn to accept the terrible feeling of itchiness and surrender to my current reality instead of struggling against the itchiness as guided by Sylvia Boorstein.