Why don’t we like to feel pain? Why do we reject it? Why do we avoid it at all costs? Why don’t we like to talk about it, if it is part of us as a human experience? Let’s explore all these unknowns…
Physical pain is a clear signal from the central nervous system that there is something that is not going well where we feel discomfort, annoyance, displeasure, annoyance in the body; and All these discomforts are alerting the physical body that we must pay attention to the ailment incurred in our body. But what about emotional pain? The pain of the soul? The pain in the heart? That one that you feel stuck in your chest? Let’s keep going…
Understanding emotional pain
The emotional pain, the pain of the soul, the personal pain, the one that you feel like a pang in the heart, the one that invades your entire being due to a certain experience, the one that is difficult to explain with words, the one that makes you contract, the one that is also connected. with the body; can only be felt. This pain is a gift from heaven, from the perfect human design with which we were all made, and if it is present and we feel it, it is because it has a purpose, even if we do not see it at the moment. This emotional pain has a firm meaning (or many) and if you can see beyond this pain it is telling you that something in you needs attention. So, beyond ignoring it, it is telling you to look at it again, to put your eyes on this, it is a clear smoke signal in your life. What are you trying to tell us? Why is it there in you, in me, in us?
The origin of the discomfort
Everything lies and begins through an emotion and at the same time every emotion comes from a thought, but for now let’s focus on emotions. These emotions trigger my feelings and likewise my pain.
Pain is an emotion that has not been experienced…yet. That it has not been able to be accommodated anywhere within us, like a rocking horse in its swing, pain is something that no one talks about and is usually left aside, set aside, hidden, hidden, left behind. However, what pain does in our lives is help us turn on the light in the dark room, like the flashlight in the dark forest, we have to point it at it, look at it in the face and let it in. It is like that perfect and well-structured alarm system that activates and turns on in our house or apartment in the absence of thieves. Pain is a resource of our soul that needs to be embraced and acknowledged, not ignored.
We tend to turn our backs on pain, because we definitely don’t like to feel it. We don’t like that discomfort that comes from within us without knowing exactly where. We vehemently reject that which makes me vulnerable and fragile before myself and others. We put on masks to continue hiding our emotions, our feelings, our sadness. However, if we, as co-creators of our life experience, continue to insist on NOT feeling so as not to look back at this pain (which is a great gift of life), we will continue to perpetuate this discomfort, becoming a snowball that is difficult to undo.
My invitation is that we see it beyond the negative component. Feel and embrace our emotions, whatever they may be, especially those that we don’t like as much. Only when we see that the pain has been present to show us something, we decide to accept it, let it invade us, and we speak with total clarity and honesty about it, then it will disappear, it will disappear like the eagle in the mountains to give way to a new emotion. Therefore, to a new feeling, whatever it may be, and in this way as it came, it will also leave, that is when it has fulfilled its mission in us and we have been able to see, recognize and feel it… above all FEEL with different eyes.
The question is: What is this pain that I feel in my soul trying to tell us at this moment in our lives? This response is very personal and each person knows it if they internalize it and go within, no matter how long it takes. The first step has already been taken.
So the invitation is to thank pain and its function because God, the universe and love thought and created everything without loose threads, without loose ends. Pain also has its innate wisdom.
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