Day 157 - A Year to Clear - Being with Pain
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Lesson 157: Being with Pain
“The best way to get rid of the pain is to feel the pain. And when you feel the pain and go beyond it, you’ll see there’s a very intense love that is wanting to awaken itself.”
When you feel pain, do you ever notice that there are physical sensations that accompany it? You may get a stomach ache or chest pain, and although they might pass quickly, it can teach us about practising detachment from that emotional pain. This is how we clear and start to practise spaciousness. Today we are to recognise what first thought comes to mind when you experience pain. From there, do you try to understand it or use a distraction like medication to ease the pain?
There has been many ways in which I have dealt with pain – crying, being alone, being around people, felt sad, avoided the pain and sometimes I have had panic attacks. It can be a combination of all those things or maybe just a few. I am very aware of how I deal with pain. I will wallow in it for some time, but I now know that I can face it, learn from it, accept it and grow. I haven’t really used medication to deal with my pain. Like, I haven’t gone to a psychologist for the purposes of getting a prescription in order to overcome pain. I think it’s necessary for some people when they are sucked way into the darkness and finding trouble getting out, though I haven’t personally needed it.
I think everyone deals in their own ways and I’m not one to judge how they go about that. I think having a deeper understanding of self helps you deal with pain or at least manage it better. I think when people are ready to really find the answers in their pain, it opens them up to more awareness. It can be a real life changing moment when that happens.