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PAIN is a big part of life. Hence, I find concision of this article is an injustice for the people I write for.
PAIN is a big part of life. Hence, I find concision of this article is an injustice for the people I write for.
Understanding Pain
Pain is an inevitable feeling everyone has to through. As we grow we understand this and unfortunately we start suffering with the pain. Without giving it a thought, that suffering in pain is not a compulsion but a choice. Some might say, ‘What a fool! When there is pain, how can we not suffer in it?’
Pain is a part of life. So is happiness. They are the two sides of a same coin. Always are and always will be. It’s a law of nature. When a tree grows tall, it will be able to enjoy the sunlight whenever it wants, but it is also a choice that it will be the first to face the wrath of nature, in heavy rainstorms and lightning. I hope you may remember that story, when a small periwinkle shrub wanted to be the beautiful rose. The nature, after much persuasion, granted the stubborn periwinkle its wish, reminding the periwinkle of its own beauty. But the few days later a storm can and the periwinkle turned rose, died and all the periwinkles were left alive.
So I now can say pain is also choice and hence we should be brave enough to accept that with the happiness of better life.
But how is pain different from suffering? What about the pain because of the laws of nature like death? The question remains! Well my friend, pain is a realistic thing in life. However, suffering is a thing based on emotional aspect of humans. Suffering is emotional drama we tend to use to show the pain. I may seem rude, but it is true. Remember last time, when you were concentrating on your bruised elbow and how much it were hurting, but suddenly some important thing came up and you got busy working, felt no pain, but suddenly a thought came, “Hey I haven’t felt the pain lately” and again it started. And well my friend, you chose to attach to the person who died, so you made it a choice to be part of the pain and happiness related to them.
First thing in dealing with pain, is accepting that it is there, without questioning its presence with questions like, ‘Why me? What is wrong with me, that I am always punished?’ Just understand it is a law of nature. Pain and happiness both have 50-50 probability, like head and tail, when the coin was flipped by Lord, Nature or Supreme Being or fate, this time pain came to you, instead of happiness, like the head or tail.
The irony of our being is, ‘We don’t pursue to be in pain, but pain comes on its own. We pursue happiness, but it never seems to come easily. We often forget that whether happiness or pain, both come at when they are supposed to come. If nature’s law is giving you pain, don’t get sad, it will also give you, your share of happiness. If someday, a gazelle is chased down by a tiger, some other day the gazelles will win instead of tiger. The thing that makes happy moments ending in a jiffy while painful moments taking time to end is that we hold on to pain but we don’t hold on to happiness.’
"If you don’t take efforts to be in pain, why take efforts to be in happiness. Both will come when they should."
Pain(full page version):
1. Understanding Pain.
Pain(half page version):
1. Understanding Pain
Part I
Part II
2. Overcoming it
Introduction
Accepting Pain
Letting Go
Forgiveness
Taking Responsibility
Few Physical Techniques
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