16 How pleasure gets twisted into self-perpetuating cycles of pain
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16 How pleasure gets twisted into self-perpetuating cycles of pain
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We must see that negativity is only a temporary reality. It will eventually grind us to a halt as it takes us to our knees.
Pain is what results from the conflict created when two creative forces go in opposing directions inside us… Naturally, everyone’s favorite direction is toward the light… But in reality, this is a world in which there are forces that oppose the light…
Take, for instance, the physical level. The entire physical being is striving for health and wholeness. When there’s a disturbance that pulls the other way, we feel pain… If we were aware that in addition to our desire for health, we have a hidden desire for non-health, the struggle would go away. For we wouldn’t be likely to hold onto a desire to be unhealthy if we were consciously aware of it…
What’s really obstructing us is the material in our unconscious. This is what creates the seeming gap between cause and effect… The cause, then, is the hidden negative wish. The effect is that there’s a disturbance in our system. The end result? Pain…
There is another plane of existence, the spiritual plane… Since the spiritual plane is where the positive direction originates, this plane doesn’t contain a negative direction. It simply cannot. This is the plane of unity… When we are free from conflict and pain, we are in unity…
The thing to remember is that under every distortion, what’s real—what’s infinitely positive—still exists… So then any time we have something negative in our make-up, it’s never all of us… The part that sides with life is going in the direction of love. The anti-life side, on the other hand, is focused on hating and isolating and staying in fear…
Jill Loree grew up in northern Wisconsin with parents who embraced their Norwegian, Swedish and German heritage. Foods like lutefisk, lefse and krumkaka were prepared every Christmas. And of course there was plenty of beer, bratwurst and cheese all year round.
She would go on to throw pizzas and bartend while attending college at the University of Wisconsin, and then moved into a career in technical sales and marketing. She would settle in Atlanta in 1989 and discover that the sweet spot of her career would be in marketing communications. A true Gemini, she has a degree in chemistry and a flair for writing.
One of Jill’s greatest passions in life has been her spiritual path. Raised in the Lutheran faith, she became a more deeply spiritual person in the rooms of Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) starting in 1989. In 1997, she was introduced to the wisdom of the Pathwork Guide, which she describes as “having walked through the doorway of a fourth step and found the whole library.”
In 2007, she completed four years of training to become a Pathwork Helper, and stepped fully into her Helpership in 2011. In addition to offering individual and group sessions, she has been a teacher in the Transformation Program offered by Mid-Atlantic Pathwork. She also led marketing activities for Sevenoaks Retreat Center in Madison, Virginia and served on their Board of Trustees.
In 2012, Jill completed four years of kabbalah training and became certified for hands-on healing using the energies embodied in the tree of life. She began dedicating her life to writing and teaching about personal self-development in 2014.
Today, Jill is the proud mom of two adult children, Charlie and Jackson, and is delighted to be married to Scott Wisler. She’s had more than one last name along the way and now happily uses her middle name as her last. It’s pronounced loh-REE. In 2022, Scott joined her full time in their mission to spread the teachings of the Pathwork Guide far and wide.
