Let PAIN Guide You to Your TRUTH

I like to call pain any type of sensation that arises within the physical body, the mental body or the emotional body that feels uncomfortable. There are levels of pain and different flavors of pain. We conventionally call them negative emotions. But throughout this article I will use the overarching term pain to refer to any type of unwanted emotions/sensations.

The purpose of pain is to awaken you to what is not working and give you the opportunity to choose differently, more in alignment with what your true essence is.

Your true essence is contained by your true self, the expression of the divine nature here on Earth, into the physical body.

There is no problem with pain.

The problem arises when we are unwilling to listen to what it wants to tell us.

This is how pain turns into suffering.

Suffering is an unnecessarily extended pain that happens when we get farther and farther away from our truth, our inner home. We are not designed to suffer, we are only supposed to feel pain just a little, enough to understand what we are meant to do next to feel better.

But we make the wrong move, take the wrong turn.

How do we do that? We annihilate the pain, thinking we solved the root cause. When in reality it's like killing the messenger, instead of allowing it to inform us more on what needs, personal truths, boundaries or other such vital parts of what makes our true self are not met.

Here are 2 steps to learn how to listen to your pain and let it show you the way back to your true self

1. Get to know your pain by involving all your senses. Close your eyes and start noticing/witnessing what's going on with this pain. Does it have a shape, a size, does it have a symbolical/metaphorical representation (for eg, someone may describe this pain as having the form of a white and dense fog that smells like a November morning)

2. Allow yourself to interpret & understand the truth that the allegory is trying to convey to you. For eg, someone who feels constriction in their chest that looks like a vise squeezing them, may actually translate this into feeling their truth suppressed. To find out what it wants to convey to you, ask yourself this question `What truth about me is this pain trying to tell me?'

All forms of pain are serving us by pointing towards what needs to be done so that we live more in alignment with our true self.