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The Adventure in Dealing with Pain

Book Abstract by: whbricker     

Original Author: William H. Bricker jr.
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'Dealing with Pain'

Pain is a real mind trapping spirit testing experience
and adventure in a person’s life. It can also be an emotionally stressful, fear ridden, and draining experience. The adventure is that of dealing with it’s reality within our lives.

There are many types of pain. As a matter of fact the innumerable ways pain can ensnare and trap us is uncountable. There is the momentary pain, the mildly uncomfortable long term pain, the light pain, the severe pain of prolonged and agonizing duration. There is physical pain, mental pain, emotional pain, and spiritual pain. In these four basic types of pain there can be the unlimited possibilities and twisted ways pain can affect us on any one, combination of, or all, of the possible levels of our conscious, or subliminal life realities.

Life is an adventure in living physical actions, reactions and decisions from birth to death. In the life adventure many things will affect us. Pain is one of those adventures that all of us will encounter in at least some small way. Most of us will have to deal with all of the four possible types of pain in our lives. Even a small cut on the tip of our finger will trigger physical pain, mental pain in the form of fearful imagination, and emotional pain in the form of stress to some degree.

How we deal with pain throughout life shows us to what depth our experiential character and self discipline has developed, and to what degree we have put our Spiritual center, our core of beliefs and values, to the test.

The adventure in dealing with pain is just that; and adventure in learning about ourselves and the universe around us, which is the true personal adventure.

Taking a mental journey is a form of meditation, and can be a great step in redirecting the minds awareness from pain. The controlled daydream vacation taken by using the mind and emotions to carry us away into an inner visual fantasy of our choosing is a good way to look at this mental journey. The vacation from pain awareness is usually only for as long a time-line as we have learned to focus and direct the mind away from the pain and into this type of meditation. But it is amazing how emotionally and physically healing even a short good experience away from the awareness of pain can be to our lives.

The same type of mental journey can be used in the active ‘doings’ of life. Doing something that takes all our mental focus. Things like crafts, cards, games, work or play of any kind that is mentally challenging and stimulating. The computer is a mind consuming work to many of us, so are social interactions with other people that add a positive energy to our lives. There are many types of action oriented work and play in life that will take all of our concentration and focus to achieve. These types of endeavors and distractions from pain work like the controlled daydream to take our conscious awareness away from the pain.

As we reap the rewards of self-discipline in meditation, whether it is from the mental vacation, or the real life action of social interactions, work or play, we find that we have in some way lessoned the impact and vice grip that the chronic pain has had on our lives. We also find that it is possible to change ourselves in the form of some type of healing that occurs with this escaping from pain new reality. We find ourselves growing a new attitude towards life in general. A more positive and healthy attitude is healing and allows more strength and self-confidence to come into our lives. All of this is healing on all levels of our lives.

As time goes on, with our new more positive attitudes, we find our lives changing inays that we had never imagined. We realize how very much time the chronic pain that is still with and affects us, has robbed from the quality of our lives. But at the same time we see how taking personal responsibility for the adventure of our pain has freed us from some of the more negative and disabling aspects of its affects. This is healing at its very best.

Taking personal responsibility for our pain in life does not necessarily free us from the pain itself, but it does free us from the chains that the pain has wrapped us up in. It also gives us a different more clearly defined view of pain in general. Pain does not totally enslave us; we partially enslave ourselves with our attitudes and views of pain.

The adventure of dealing with pain is a quest into our own lives and beliefs. It takes us from the pain of blind enslavement, to the enlightened understanding of our own ability and responsibility of taking control of our lives. The adventure is one of self-discovery, and self-liberation, to whatever degree we find it, through our own personal efforts in the art of healing ones self.














Published: May 25, 2006
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