In today’s consumer-oriented society, people tend to have many wishes. A wish, at its core, is an expression of dissatisfaction with the present moment. The mind says: “If only I had this or that, then I would be happy.” Not long ago, I spoke with someone who suffers from severe depression. There was one gnawing “problem” that caused his thoughts to circle endlessly around itself, to the point that he said: “I would give all my money if only I didn’t have this problem.” And this is how it happens that people who suffer deeply begin to see only themselves. In this sense, depression can be understood as an extreme narrowing of awareness — everything revolves around the self and its pain. Why do I mention this? Because I have noticed that many people in our society — especially those who suffer in this way — lack gratitude. Everything else becomes more important as long as it concerns the beloved “me.” The wishes never end — and where is gratitude? It is forgotten, because we are so accustomed to having everything available. Because we believe that the outer world must serve us, that we are entitled to certain things because we have “earned” them. And if I deserve it — why should I still be grateful? In doing so, we forget something essential: God. And when we forget God, we forget ourselves. Yet every single day there is so much to be grateful for. For the farmer and the cows that produce the milk for my cocoa. For the farmers who grow the cocoa itself. For all the people who were needed to invent glass, to produce the cup, to light the candle that illuminates the room. For all the people who made it possible for me to type these words on a keyboard — and for the people in the Spiritual Rebels group, spread across the globe, who may read them later. Truly — wow. What gratitude. “Father, I thank You for everything You have given me — for the beautiful moments, but also for the challenges, suffering, and worries, which in truth bring me closer to You. Thank You for the gift of life and for giving me the possibility to enter Your eternity.

I’ve been watching Reys videos for a while now and I’ve only recently decided to join this community I’m excited to be here and learn further. I make art and through my art I’ve relearned some inner truths, hearing rey speak really just puts the puzzle pieces I already had together, I appreciate his wisdom.

My video on this! Unprocessed emotions holds us back, just in cases you don’t know, unprocessed emotion creates a dysregulated nervous system, which makes you be in a constant state of survival mode, and it messes up tons of areas of your life, and in this post I want to show you the top 5 ways to process this stuff. 1. Shaking, this is the one I must commonly use, whenever I bring up a past unprocessed emotion, I like to shake for a couple minutes, and that weirdly enough works to process the specific trauma I am trying to heal. 2. Exercise, this is a cool one, I have never done it, but of you meditate on a past trauma, sometimes to process your emotion from that, the gym can work great for that. 3. Let it all out, this is the best one and is the one we should be aiming for every time we try heal our trauma, basically this one is all about just letting yourself cry or whatever after your bring up the past unhealed trauma, this is great, aim for this. 4. Breathwork, I have heard of people who bring up their past unprocessed emotion, then they heal by doing breathwork, and that helps them regulate. 5. Cold exposure, this is the final one, and before I explain this one I just want to say, get creative with this, a load of weird random things you would not expect work to process your emotion, cold exposure can work wonders, to heal your trauma. Hope this helped.