Perspectives on Pain
This past week I received an email from a
dear friend who's had a long road of daunting physical challenges.
Her latest one is learning to live with pain.
Here is my friend's email, slightly edited:
Dear John,
I finally today found last week's message, Does
Praying Do Any Good? I have had a series of
really bleak years, feeling that my prayers are all "bouncing
off the ceiling" -- a really dreadful feeling to have!
I try to "know" as I once did so profoundly, that my
prayers are "being heard" and will therefore be effective.
But that trust runs along a dry creek bed, now.
Could it be that my "faith" is tainted by the chemicals
I use to control pain? I know that too much of the powerful Vicaden
that works best for me, has really "screwed around with my
mind" when I mistakenly took too much. Now, I manage to live
with a tolerable pain level with just half-a-tablet, twice a day.
But, I realize that may still be more than my physiology can handle,
without affecting my mind.
If you have any experience with this, or wisdom to share, I will
appreciate hearing from you.
Love and hugs!
P.S. I do still have a comfortable feeling of the presence of
Angels 'round me at all times. They so often keep me from tripping
or falling, and spare me a lot of dropped items and spillage. I have
no doubt that I am surrounded by a lot of love, at all times, but
seem to have lost the feeling that I know exactly where that love is
centralized, or how to make successful "requests."
Here's Chief Joseph's response to her:
Chief
Joseph
When you are in physical pain it always means every cell
in the painful part of your body is asking your Source for healing.
Shift your perspective of pain from what it seems to be -- a
disaster or, at best, a bloody nuisance -- to what it REALLY
is. For what it really is is a powerful reassurance to you that your
body knows what it's doing. It knows how to heal itself.
But if the pain is intense and YOU get in the way of your
body's natural healing abilities, it is not a "bad" thing
to use pain medication.
The only problem with that is people sometimes come to depend on
the medication, even beyond the point where it's no longer helping
them. In other words, it's served its purpose and your body is
managing well without the medication.
The pain medication is really not serving your body
anyway. It's only getting you out of your body's way.
Since doctors are such authority figures in your lives, we would
advise continuing to consult them, and not cut the ties "cold
turkey" unless you're totally convinced you can "go it
alone." And you absolutely CAN go it alone. But don't do
it until you're absolutely sure.
You've heard the term "vis medicatrix naturae" (the
healing power of nature, the body's natural healing powers). It's
more your BELIEF in the doctors and the medication that heals
you of the pain and the dis-ease.
So use whatever stimulates that belief. Definitely do NOT
go to any doctor or other healer who does not believe your greatest
healer is within. And when YOU know your greatest healer is
within you can return your body to a state of perfect health,
perfect balance, perfect alignment, no matter what your body's age
or state of "deterioration."
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