I agree, great timing for this post, Open! So synchronous too, with the way I'm currently telling my story in memoir #2. Events that happened back in the late 70s and 80s when I went dashing in to relive 'misery' and 'pain' and thus overcome hurts from the past. Yet only now, in 2013, do I have the insight and distance to be clear that what I was doing was becoming One with the emotional pain, thus taking away its power. I need to make this clear, otherwise my readers will think I'm a masochist! :)
When we are abducted by Hades, we may as well eat those pomegranate seeds with relish. Only then will we experience Pluto's Horn of Plenty.