This article is a continuation of the last two notes involving our path. This note goes specifically into the process of how to deal with pain. It involves three steps. Some of these have been discussed generally in the previous notes.
The first step is to realize that pain is a beacon which should not be ignored. We must hone in on the pain, finding the exact spot it originates from. To find the exact location, not a generalized area, is to realize that our full attention can not share the same space with pain. In cases of severe pain complete focus will be very difficult and a “pain killer” may be required, but we should leave some pain so that we can bring our attention to the exact spot and to heal it.
Focus healing energy on this spot, imagining the particles making a quantum leap to their fully restored and original construction. See if you can feel the dynamic of the pain change – from the pain you felt before to a more subtle and manageable pain as your focus takes over the healing process.
This is the first step, and is important, but a more important step is to move through our life story and determine why this pain is there. It is not always the case that an injury is related to some past issue, but often it is. There is a random element in this world which causes things to happen when we are not focusing on living our ideal life, but we should consider our life story if something keeps recurring. If we heal and relapse, heal and relapse it shows that our physical pain is a manifestation of deeper levels of unrest.
A stomach or intestinal pain may be from a anxiety which is never dealt with. A sprained ankle at what first appears to be at in opportune time may be the perfect excuse not to proceed with something because we are worried about the outcome. A broken hand may be quite fitting under the circumstances when we consider that a exam we were unprepared for is coming up, or we must write about something which we are not sure we want to share with the world.
The common thread is that the pain is resulting from a fear. Our pain not always a result of fear though – it may result from habit. Consider an example such as this: If we constantly give people the excuse that we can’t do something because we are sick (when we really aren’t) over time this could develop into a chronic feeling of feeling ill, sluggish, sick, reclusive, or other related issues. By creating a ill condition as an element of escape, our body begins to adapt to the whims of the creative mind. If we have a habit of creating an illness, injury, pain or suffering when there is none, it is very likely that same symptom will be begin to occur in our future.
The more zen approach in that we accept what is and embrace our pain is a good one; that we accept pain as part of the oneness; that it is our perception of pain which makes it even more painful. By labeling it we create more of it because we then associate that label with ourselves. Pain which is a function of the body, becomes associated with us, the observer within the body (the soul and on a different level the ego)…and the pain becomes not just a signal but a part of our current identify. To fully accept pain is to discard the label, to rid ourselves of our personal identity as it relates to pain and to free ourselves from it.
This relates to an even further break down of labels in the general categories of “good” and “bad”. These categories serve us well in many day to day to things in order to survive on the planet, but in matters of our soul they greatly inhibit our ability to grow spiritually. If we continually label things are good or bad, we are missing the broader picture that we can’t have one without the other in this world. Therefore, there is a middle road, where we try to no longer label and allow things to be what they are.
There are some good elements in these thoughts. Some which can be used as tools are certain times to help us with certain situations. But to ignore certain dichotomies on this planet may also bring us to a point of aloofness. We become so ingrained in accepting what is, that we fail to realize that while we have reached a place of “peace” most of the people around us have not. (I am getting a little track…so back to the point… 
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But this does not get rid of the signal in our body which is telling us something needs our attention. And so we have the above steps to give our attention to it and heal it. And so while we give our attention to it, we also accept it – but we must and accept and overcome the underlying reason that signal is there within in our body in the first place. We do this by examining our life and what is it we must overcome, move back to, or find within this life. It always the searching outside that leads to discomfort, as the answer is always within. The discomfort or restlessness is also a beacon. A beacon that something is going on inside that needs to be focused on. But often the more restless we feel the harder we search outside, intensifying our pain, discomfort, and many other emotions and sensations.
The vision of our life is paramount in accomplishing the healing of the physical and internal reasons for our pain. Our life vision is often wrapped up in our pain dramas. When we lose sight of the vision of our life, we expose ourselves to pain as the last note described. Not all pain needs to be associated with our life vision, but often it will be. To rediscover what our personal vision is, and to pursue it, is to eradicate much potential pain within our life. We can use the energy which pursuing our vision gives us, and that energy can then be focused on healing the exact points of injury, both physically and in terns of our life story.
I realize this was a little scattered, so in point form here are the steps for complete healing in all aspects of our life:
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-All sensations within our body are a beacon which are telling us we need to focus our attention there, on the exact spot.
-Focus healing energy on the exact spot envisioning the particles and atoms returning to the healthful state.
-Accept the pain for it is here now, but know that it is healing as you focus on it.
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-Look back through your life and see if similar issues are recurring? Is there a reason this may have occurred? Does the injury allow you to avoid something you were dreading? Does the injury reflect something that is constantly on your mind? Has the pain or suffering become real, when before it was only something you lied about or embellished?
-Often the things we don’t deal with in our life become physical manifestations so to gain our attention.
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-By pursuing our life vision we create energy which helps minimize pain in our life and also aids us in recovery when we do stumble in life. Discovering our life vision was the topic of the last two posts.
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A few things to realize is that we live in a physical world and things do occur. This makes it interesting. If we follow the above steps it does not mean we will never feel pain again, we will, but we will be in a much better place to handle it. We can dull the pain quickly by changing our thoughts about the pain and giving it our focus of healing.
We must also realize that some injuries are permanent. This was addressed in previous note comments about chronic diseases and childhood illness on my Facebook profile (I will post those comments on this site shortly as a separate note on this issue along with additional information). Yet the above steps do not change. Just because our body may have changed does not mean we lose our purpose. We still have a vision which we should follow, internal contemplation and growth to achieve, and pain to be tame by internal healing energy.
This is simply another view on how to deal with pain. As our society evolves we will find that many methods begin merge as we see ways in which we can attain more complete healing. Each field of study brings its own contribution to the table, and these should not be ignored. But at the same time we know that it is not just the physical that often needs healing, or vice-versa. Therefore consider the best option for you, but consider your whole being while doing it.
~Cory Mitchell
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