Dr. Aravind PadmarajuHealwitharavind · Founder & CEO

are you stuck with past pains ?? #shorts

4 Nov 2022 · 1 min

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In this short spoken monologue, Aravind Padmaraju, Ph.D., uses a simple physical demonstration—holding a cup—to illustrate how clinging to past pains, struggles, or challenges creates ongoing suffering. He explains that holding a cup feels fine for a few minutes, but after an extended period it becomes painful, mirroring how continuously holding onto past experiences leads to mental and bodily discomfort. He argues that humans tend to keep such past burdens indefinitely, never releasing or accepting them. The core advice is to stop "holding" the past and instead place it metaphorically on a table, allowing oneself to move forward.

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Are you always worrying about your past and you don't know what to do and what exactly you're causing the pain to your body? So let's do with a small test. So hold any cup like this. Hold any cup for 5 minutes, you will feel okay. For 10 minutes, you will feel okay. For 1 hour, then you will start seeing the pain. And if you keep holding that past, whatever it could be, a pain, or it could be a struggle, it could be a challenge, it could be any kind of a situation you've gone through in past. If you keep holding that, it's same like this cup, right? You can hold for 1 hour, then it starts paining, paining, paining. But what as a human we do is we hold this past forever. We never release, we never accept and move on. So what is most important is instead of holding, keep it in a table.