As someone who has experienced chronic pain, it can be a difficult concept to accept that pain isn't ALL bad. It is much easier to perceive, as I enjoy a "pain free" life, but understanding that pain has its place has been a part of my healing journey.
Befriending our pain can feel impossible, or even undesirable, as we navigate living our lives in discomfort. However, our bodies, in their varying levels of functionality and mobility, our miracles in-action. It is truly incredible to recognize all of the systems that work involuntarily around the clock to afford us this magical experience of life.
While there may be many moments we could wish our pain away, our pain has a purpose and important place. It is our alarm system indicating our limits as we feel these sensations on a physical level. Without this alarm system, we could easily over-do and breach safe limitations.
As human beings, we perceive our environment and experiences on many levels - physically, mentally, and emotionally. What we feel in our bodies, physically, is directly related to our internal weather, trauma, and healing. Knowing that we may have to confront those layers of emotional trauma during our healing journey and allow for a more effective and well-rounded healing journey.
Throughout our day, we can invite those parts of us to be seen and acknowledged. As our body is feeling these sensations, take a pause, quietly to yourself, or even out loud, say hello to those feelings, give them a name, a color, a shape. See them and feel them, then if desired, ask them to go and be released. Thank your body for having the space and awareness to feel the pain, the discomfort, and then tell your body that you are grateful, but that it is no longer needed.
Can you recall difficult experiences in your past that may need more processing? Do you feel safe now to do so? To remember those situations and see if your body may be holding on to the past? If so, welcome that form of mental inventory to give your mind, body, and spirit the opportunity to release what is no longer serving you. Give that version of yourself a hug and remind yourself that you are safe.
Our mental health can help us heal or exasperate our symptoms. If we are constantly thinking, "I am sick" or "I am in pain" those feelings will grow and be supported energetically. What if we had the power to change that? What if we paid attention to those thoughts and modified them to focus on what we want to attract? "I am healing!" "I am thankful for today." "I love my body, thank you for carrying me through time and space."
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