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Re: Week 10 - Physical pain

Wed, 26 Jul 2006 14:24:47 GMT

I just had to add something to this, even though it's been a few weeks. I got this great quote from a friend on another community. It's just beautiful!

Pain

"This pain is not to make you sad, remember. That's where
people go on missing.... This pain is just to make you
more alert--because people become alert only when the arrow
goes deep into their heart and wounds them. Otherwise they
don't become alert. When life is easy, comfortable, convenient,
who cares? Who bothers to become alert? When a friend dies,
there is a possibility. When your woman leaves you alone--those
dark nights, you are lonely. You have loved that woman so much
and you have staked all, and then suddenly one day she is gone.
Crying in your loneliness, those are the occasions when,
if you use them, you can become aware.
The arrow is hurting: it can be used. The pain is not to make you miserable, the pain is to make you more aware! And when you are aware, misery disappears."

From Take it Easy, Volume 2 Chapter 12

Re: Week 10 - Physical pain

Fri, 14 Jul 2006 16:00:33 GMT

Here's mine. Thank you for this topic. It was an important and healing form of expression for me. ♥

Re: Week 10 - Physical pain

http://luminessence.gaia.com — Tue, 11 Jul 2006 22:18:23 GMT

And here's mine, even later :)

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http://zephrene.gaia.com — Tue, 11 Jul 2006 16:23:34 GMT

i'm coming in late, but enthusiastic.

http://zephrene.zaadz.com/blog/2006/7/friday_five_-_a_bit_late

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http://redwoodjedi.gaia.com — Tue, 11 Jul 2006 16:15:54 GMT

Here's Mine. Sorry I took so long. I was waiting for the Blog to be fixed.

E Buzz outtie!

Re: Week 10 - Physical pain

Mon, 10 Jul 2006 23:44:01 GMT

Hello, All! Here's my first Friday Five--a little late...

1) Why is there physical pain? For a variety of reasons, I think: It's a call to attention, a path to self discovery, and an anvil on which a powerful soul can forged. It can also be a vessel that holds despair. In whatever manner it comes, it has a way of bringing peoples strengths and weaknesses out and holding them up to the light, and forcing us to know ourselves better; perhaps the sum up sentence would be, "It's a guide."

2) Do you prefer western or eastern medicine? Why? I prefer an integrated approach-it's what I've seen have the most success, and seems to address the person as a whole.

3) Describe your own personal experience with pain. Chronic illness? Trips to doctors? Shamans? Hospitals? Accupuncture? I had a low back injury for several months, as well as a broken knee-both healed. I have chronic wrist pain, which impacts my ability to type/write/play guitar sometimes. My trips to doctors for most of my adult life were very good, because I was working in hospitals and the doctors who I went to were also my friends. It's a wonderful experience to have your healer be someone who truly knows you and deeply cares about you, as oppossed to a stranger. Now that I no longer have that option, I find the HMO system all but overwhelming, and tend to avoid doctors all together. I have never been to a non-Western practicioner.

4) Have you or someone you know been miraculously healed? I have seen many people healed when they addressed the emotional/spiritual pain that was contributing to their physical pain. I guess you could call it a miracle... but to me it makes an awful lot of sense.

5) What is the biggest healing secret you have learned in your life? That fear of pain is sure to keep me in pain, and that sitting with pain is often the way out of it.

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http://paisley.gaia.com — Mon, 10 Jul 2006 22:16:48 GMT

) Why is there physical pain? Without pain we would not stop to feel the connection of the body to source. Feeling is the physical manifestation of emotion, a reaction in the body to what we are experienceing. When we are out of alignment with our True Self we create disharmony and eventually pain, then eventually, if unchecked, disease. 2) Do you prefer western or eastern medicine? Why? Definitely eastern, most things can be cured with homeopathic treatments or energy/attitude shifts. 3) Describe your own personal experience with pain. Chronic illness? Trips to doctors? Shamans? Hospitals? Accupuncture? wow, could get long. My first visit to acupuncture was for what I thought was a torn muscle in my hip flexor region. I couldn’t even lift up my leg to walk up steps or work the clutch in my car. I was skeptical it would work. Koichi put one needle in my hip flexor and I instantly started weeping. I think for maybe 15 mins this went on, all of the stopped up and repressed things I’d not processed. I left his office like a zombie and went home and went to sleep. In the middle of the night I went to the bathroom and was shocked to discover that I was walking normally. The next day I judged it at 75% back to full strength. 2 more visits and it was near perfect. Ever after that I’ve been a believer and have used lots of energy workers and homeopathic remedies to treat everything from depression, feeling out of body to a kidney infection. 4) Have you or someone you know been miraculously healed? Don’t know if I’d call it a miracle, but I had a couple accidents that severely ruptured a disc at the base of my neck. The doctors all said that the only solution to my numb arm, constant pain and therefore lack of sleep, was to cut my throat open, spread the bones apart, pull out the disc and put ina cadaveric bone, then fuse it all together. I said no thank you very much, I’ll find a way to live with it. And, instead, I did lots of traction, little neck curve enhancing exercises, acupuncture, got a new neck roll for a pillow and meditated my ass off. If not for the mediation I wouldn’t be here now without pain! Yet another place I’d been holding in my body which will hurt again if I negelect my meditation and yoga practices. 5) What is the biggest healing secret you have learned in your life? It’s all in your head. I’m not saying the pain isn’t real, I’m saying through investigation we can discover what is keeping us in the pattern of pain.

Re: Week 10 - Physical pain

http://paisley.gaia.com — Mon, 10 Jul 2006 22:14:21 GMT

Pain helps us listen and learn

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http://abc4all.gaia.com — Mon, 10 Jul 2006 21:03:58 GMT

Info to share with others?

1) Why is there physical pain?

Because we lack proper knowledge of ways to improve and reduce, if not eliminate, pain. This knowledge is available NOW.

2) Do you prefer western or eastern medicine? Why?

I prefer the "shotgun approach." In short, what works? what helps? Go for it!

3) Describe your own personal experience with pain. Chronic illness? Trips to doctors? Shamans? Hospitals? Accupuncture?

From a lifetime of rehabilitation to making it a better community for all: http://abc4all.net/appc.htm

4) Have you or someone you know been miraculously healed?

Yes. I and many others. Please see the addendum at the top here: http://abc4all.net/techawardapp.htm

But it is not a miracle, just miraculous. It is an accidental discovery in a physics lab.

5) What is the biggest healing secret you have learned in your life?

Follow the "path of 8 petals:" http://abc4all.net/8petals.htm

Burt Danet, ABC4All (Facilitator) http://abc4all.zaadz.com/

Re: Week 10 - Physical pain

http://annette.gaia.com — Mon, 10 Jul 2006 17:50:58 GMT

SorryI am a bit late...... I just joined!!!!

Week 10 - Physical pain

:: Friday Five :: Week 10 :: Physical pain ::
How to participate: 1) Join holy memes and kosmic blog starters and check it out every Friday for a different set of five questions. 2) Copy and paste those questions (and this message!) into your blog. 3) Tag your entry with the words "Friday Five" and post it. 4) Come back to the pod and tell us about your post. 5) Message suzanne with ideas for next week. Let's spread the seeds!

1) Why is there physical pain?

physical pain is the sound of one end of the seesaw hitting the ground!!!!!
2) Do you prefer western or eastern medicine? Why?

I prefer not to create a divide between the two, they are different perspectives of the same thing....

3) Describe your own personal experience with pain. Chronic illness? Trips to doctors? Shamans? Hospitals? Accupuncture?,

I have experienced chronic and severe pain in one side of my head every day for 30 yrs or so . I experienced many diagnostic and healing modalities.....the only thing that did not help was taking painkillers....yes they took the pain away, but it always came back......theonly thing that has helped me was learning the lesson the pain had to teach....now I am frequntly pain free and when I am not I don't worry....... I l question it and study it, and I take help wherever it appears

4) Have you or someone you know been miraculously healed?

Probably! Many times

5) What is the biggest healing secret you have learned in your life?

learn the lesson

Re: Week 10 - Physical pain

http://matthew.gaia.com — Mon, 10 Jul 2006 05:14:04 GMT

Ok, here's mine... Sorry I'm late!

Re: Week 10 - Physical pain

Mon, 10 Jul 2006 03:17:34 GMT

So sorry to hear about your back. I did that last fall, and was out of commission for two weeks. Not fun at all. I was in PT for 6 weeks but can now say it's all behind me (ooh, bad pun).

Here are my answers. (My first week trying out the Friday Five!)

Re: Week 10 - Physical pain

http://coolmel.gaia.com — Sun, 09 Jul 2006 21:32:51 GMT

here's my pain.

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http://integral-options.gaia.com — Sun, 09 Jul 2006 02:44:41 GMT

Mine sounds kind of arrogant, but it isn't meant that way.

Peace,
Bill

Re: Week 10 - Physical pain

Sat, 08 Jul 2006 22:30:47 GMT

Had fun with this. Here is mine.

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http://creativequesting.gaia.com — Sat, 08 Jul 2006 19:46:43 GMT

here's mine

Suzanne, I hope you're feeling better and getting the help you need

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http://sainton.gaia.com — Sat, 08 Jul 2006 19:06:00 GMT

1) Why is there physical pain? it allows you to know when your body is in discomfort and/or when it is in danger of major injury.
2) Do you prefer western or eastern medicine? I feel that a combination of both is good.

Why? I think that both have great merits but I also am aware of the fact that both have glaring gaps in their applications and success.
3) Describe your own personal experience with pain. Chronic illness? nope

Trips to doctors? Rare

Shamans? aone

Hospitals? once

Accupuncture? nope
4) Have you or someone you know been miraculously healed? No, bu tI do have an aunt who is a faith healer. I take that back, I had something going on with my eyes and was practically blind for a day. The doctors couldn't figure out what was going on. She took a look at me and rubbed her hands over my eyes while calling to her spirit guide for assistance adn within 2 seconds I could see again.
5) What is the biggest healing secret you have learned in your life? Positive living and true joy is the best thing to help you heal.

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http://joybringer.gaia.com — Sat, 08 Jul 2006 06:34:29 GMT

Here's my take & experience with pain... http://joybringer.zaadz.com/blog/2006/7/pain_friday_five You can also see 2 related poems of mine "Not Learning from Pain" http://joybringer.zaadz.com/blog/2006/7/not_learning_from_pain_poem and "Healing" with a Jean Luc Bozzoli dolphin slide show & music: http://joybringer.zaadz.com/blog/2006/7/my_healing_poem Suzanne, so sorry to hear that you are in pain! You must have learned from it already, so it is time to change it with joy! :) Sending you the best of energy for healing with godspeed! Darina As Robert Gary Lee says: “Wisdom is nothing more than healed pain.”

Re: Week 10 - Physical pain

http://thepixellator.gaia.com — Sat, 08 Jul 2006 04:20:24 GMT

I'm so sorry to hear that you threw out your back, Suzanne. I hope recovery goes swiftly.

http://thepixellator.zaadz.com/blog/2006/7/friday_five_physical_pain

Here is my entry on pain. It's a tough subject to write about, especially for those people who live in chronic pain for decades.

Week 10 - Physical pain

Sat, 08 Jul 2006 03:09:43 GMT

Well, yesterday I threw my back out, making it very difficult to move or sit or sleep... so this subject today is at the forefront of my mind. :-)

:: Friday Five :: Week 10 :: Physical pain ::
How to participate: 1) Join holy memes and kosmic blog starters and check it out every Friday for a different set of five questions. 2) Copy and paste those questions (and this message!) into your blog. 3) Tag your entry with the words “Friday Five” and post it. 4) Come back to the pod and tell us about your post. 5) Message suzanne with ideas for next week. Let's spread the seeds!

1) Why is there physical pain?
2) Do you prefer western or eastern medicine? Why?
3) Describe your own personal experience with pain. Chronic illness? Trips to doctors? Shamans? Hospitals? Accupuncture?
4) Have you or someone you know been miraculously healed?
5) What is the biggest healing secret you have learned in your life?