healing

I don't subscribe to many unfounded, unproven, or esoteric self help theories, but here in Israel we claim as our own the father of harvard's modern positive psychology stream. Harvard's lead lecturer on positive psychology recently assumed a position at Israel's IDC in Herziliya and is beginning to spread his message in our neighbourhood.

one of the central tenets of this stream is that we ought to let ourselves hurt and feel pain until it passes, that there's no sense in trying to be strong to prevent the pain from reaching into your core because if pain didn't pass then humanity itself would be doomed. Being able to feel pain means that we've opened the passageway to feeling happiness on the flip side. we have the ability to pass through the most painful experiences and the deepest traumas, so we can allow ourselves to take the time to let it pass and to return to our selves again. Sometimes this means letting the tears flow unabated and it's in honour of our humanity not in spite of it.