It’s an ancient and puzzling question. Why does pain have to be part of the human journey?
From a spiritual point of view, the answer may be shrouded in mystery. But we do know a few things, from a purely physical perspective, about what pain is actually doing in the body.
Pain is your body’s danger signal. It’s what you feel when your nerves send an electrical current to your brain that says, “Something is not right here!” Some damage has occurred, or is threatened, in the body.
So, I want to share with you 3 things below that you can do to address your pain and soothe it.
But first, a few important words about pain…
Pain may be a temporary disruption of the body’s equilibrium, like when you stub your toe, or it could stem from a serious illness, like cancer or fibromyalgia. No matter the pain, the message is essentially the same: “Something’s wrong and needs to change.”
But what if that message is keeping you up at night and you don’t know what to do about it? What if you’re in chronic pain that limits your mobility and constricts your ability to take joy in life?
For millions of people, possibly including you, these are not abstract questions. And it’s actually dangerous to live with too much pain. Researchers at Harvard are currently studying the connection between physical pain and mental illness.
Sometimes, when you’re keyed up due to stress or trauma, your body ignores the pain so that it can focus on keeping you alive. This is an incredible evolutionary gift that our ancestors passed down to us. But you cannot live like that in the long-term; your pain-ignoring mechanism wears off.
Sooner or later, pain must be felt and faced.
So … given that there are so many different types of pain in this world, so many ways that the body can hurt, are there any universal methods for dealing with pain?
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