Owning my pain. Once its owned it loses its power. Pain is a neutral sensation. It is impersonal and part of being in a body. Pain is not only a neutral sensation but when experienced as such, in clarity, it offers pure data. Wordless info that only the body can convey.
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Posts from the archives to help us think about pain (at much greater length than the above little contemplation):
- Let your pain speak
- The hurt and pained bully and love
- How do you exercise when you’re in pain?
- Depression as pain
- It gets better: Dyesthesias — abnormal pain from psych drug withdrawal
- You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented
- A way to be on this earth and not shy away from the pain
- Adventures in natural pain relief
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I find myself unable to deal with much physical pain. I have been through the pain of drug induced lupus, drug induced “fibromyalgia” and now double sciatica. No, I do not find that pain is neutral awaiting our interpretation of it. I have had enough pain for ten people.