Habitual Pain and Self-Abandonment

Shaman Dao
3 min readJun 25, 2024
Photo by Jeremy Vessey on Unsplash

The last class I taught ended with one of my top students crying over the realization of habitual pain. Something I channeled in regards to people running around with their heads cut off. Similar to when chickens’ heads are cut off.

Most people go through life not feeling their pain. Some are in shock, but most of the time, it’s a choice — unconscious, but a choice nonetheless.

The chicken’s demise is at the hands of the humans. A human’s demise is usually at the hands of their decisions and choices.

Who should we feel bad for?

As someone who used to feel bad for everyone except herself, I understand the difference between a person who chooses habitual pain and someone in a painful circumstantial crisis. Same, same, but different, they would say in Thailand.

I’ve been in that habitual pain. A slow, but fast, sometimes fun, endless cycle of seeing the world through the eyes of a victim. Through the eyes of, ‘Why me?’ Through the eyes of fear.

Fear is a human emotion that grips many people, keeping them bound within their emotional states, and preventing full growth. That’s why you can meet an emotionally mature 21-year-old and a…

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Shaman Dao

I write about practical spirituality and things that go bump in the night. Find out your ‘why’ with The Quantum Why Meditation https://www.shamandao.com/links