The Value of Pain

As a species, we’re very intolerant of pain. Yet pain is a part of life. And it’s pain that tends to get our attention enough to find something we didn’t know before. It can make us grow.

You can feel pain both physically and emotionally and they are both valuable signposts that something needs to be addressed regarding your health. Mental pain is slightly different.

By ignoring or suppressing pain, you are essentially saying your body has no wisdom. You’re disrespecting your body. When you have no respect for your body, why should anyone else?

To a large extent this attitude has been nurtured by our families and communities. We don’t like to see others in pain and may go out of our way to stop it. And its so easy to do, thanks to the medical industry.

Whilst there will always be times when suppressing pain temporarily has great value, it should never be used long term, as it is all too readily today.

Let’s deal with physical pain first.

Physical pain is a reaction to either an acute condition, such as a bite, an injury, a burn, or a more chronic condition such as arthritis, angina, constant headaches.

There is also the periodic acute manifestations of a chronic condition, such as problems with menstruation or seasonal complaints.

The pain of acute conditions is temporary, but can be severe depending what it is. Taking analgaesics may not be the wisest thing to do in terms of healing, but it probably won’t do much long term damage.

What would be more conducive to healing, apart from taking the appropriate homeopathic remedy to support the body’s healing, is to listen to what the body wants to do.

You may become tired, so your body is telling you to rest.

You may become irritable with company and noise, so your body is telling you to retreat and be on your own.

If the pain is worse on movement, then the body is telling you not to move.

Yet many soldier on because of work and family commitments.

By ignoring the body’s signs and symptoms, you’re not moving forward. And as life is all about change and growth, the universe (substitute whatever word is approprate for you) will come and bite you on the bum again and again until you either get it or die and have another chance in another life.

Let me give you an example. My current dog has a few issues. Mental rather than physical. Soon after arriving, she attacked one of my cats, who was used to dogs.

I won’t go into what I thought of doing to the dog.

It was a neck bite and the cat couldn’t eat for five whole days. I presume swallowing was painful. I treated her intensely homeopathically.

Not only did she heal completely, including happily chomping on her daily bony chicken piece, she grew. This is quite a normal consequence of good homeopathic healing.

By growing, I mean she became more assertive, whereas she had been quite demure before. She also became more friendly to me. AND she showed no increased fear of the dog - just a normal feline reaction to avoid the dog.

Who is now fine with the cats.

I’ve had my fair share of injuries, but I’ve never been a pill popper, thanks to my upbringing. My parents weren’t into fussing over us. If we were bad, we were put to bed. If we didn’t like that, we weren’t bad enough!

I listen to my body and use homeopathy.

The regular suppression of acute manifestions of an underlying chronic condition, such as menstrual problems, can have more serious consequences. Taking analgaesics regularly will have a deleterious effect on the body. Especially the liver which is where de-toxing takes place, and the kidneys.

Over time people may have noticed that you have become more irritable (indicating the liver) or more anxious (the kidneys).

The homeopathic treatment of menstrual problems can be life changing.

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