Weight of the World

[Ashim]

I was meditating, and it feels like the weight of the world is pressing down on my heart chakra, crying out to be loved. I do my best to send love, but I can't overcome this inward pull, and push my love outwards. It seems the pain of the world is too much for me to overcome.

This suffering keeps me from getting deeper in my meditation. Keeps me from finding relaxation and release. It's suffering for me on an energetic level as much as the world suffers. It's hard to take.

in a world that seems full of suffering, what is the best way to serve?

@GW
One does not 'overcome' the pain of the world.
What we tend to experience as pain is the resistance encountered during integration of negativity. The acceptance of negative aspects of self seen as being 'separate' from oneself.

At the threshold the 'pain' occurs due to lack of approval, thus one attemps to distance oneself from a particular aspect. Denial.

This does not mean that we must enact negative scenarios but rather, as Ra suggested, use the imagination.

I found this of particular help.

To begin to master the concept of mental discipline it is necessary to examine the self. The polarity of your dimension must be internalized. Where you find patience within your mind you must consciously find the corresponding impatience and vice versa. Each thought that a being has, has in its turn an antithesis. The disciplines of the mind involve, first of all, identifying both those things of which you approve and those things of which you disapprove within yourself, and then balancing each and every positive and negative charge with its equal. The mind contains all things. Therefore, you must discover this completeness within yourself.