Are You Using Spirituality as Pain Management?

It may be time to reassess your motives

Patrick Paul Garlinger
Mystic Minds
Published in
3 min readApr 29, 2022

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Are you sitting down to meditate to experience some relief from a painful situation? Are you opening to the divine or your higher self as a way to feel loved?

As someone who has meditated for well over a decade, I know what it’s like to sit down and try to meditate my pain away.

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Patrick Paul Garlinger
Mystic Minds

Author of Endless Awakening: Time, Paradox, and the Path to Enlightenment and other books. Former prof & lawyer, now mystic, writer, psychic.