Pain is Inevitable, but Suffering is Optional

When we think of pain and suffering, we usually think about more or less the same thing. When there’s pain, there’s suffering.

And we can only be free from suffering if we eliminate pain.

Well, even though these two experiences are interconnected, pain and suffering are two different things.

To differentiate between your pain and the suffering that is being piled on top. They will also help you to view pain as something you can cope with.

When our negative thoughts create suffering, our pain can become almost overwhelming.

Can we choose to avoid the pain of emotion?

No, we cannot. Pain engulfs us in one form or the other and expects a reaction of suffering or action to protect us. Fury, humiliation, guilt, distress and grief play an essential role in our lives and even our existence.

The intensity of pain is directly proportional to the depth of suffering regardless of one’s choice or option. Suffering is a recurrent letdown in acting effectively on the natural inspiration of pain to accomplish something that may restore, repair or recover.

Pain and affliction are an inherent part of life: we contract illnesses, get wounded, lose our loved ones, our possessions, and our social status. But despite the hardships we encounter, the degree of suffering we generate still varies per person.

The greatest misfortune hardly affects some?people, while the slightest inconvenience leads other?people into states of deep agony.

Thus, could it be that suffering is something we can manage and doesn’t always have to result from pain?

Suffering is part of living in the world and comes in many different forms like sorrow, the fear of loss, and lamentation. Most (if not all) people experience these forms of suffering at some point in their lives.

As humans, we cannot escape the impermanent nature of life. The environment changes all the time. Sometimes life provides us with wealth, and another time life takes from us everything we have.

The path out?of suffering starts; it’s seeing how things are, including the truth about the human condition, which is probably much bleaker than most people believe.

Isn’t it so that we hold on to the illusion of self-preservation by accumulating wealth, an excessive emphasis on self-protection, and the ongoing efforts to maintain what we actually cannot control?

As a culture obsessed with safety and the prevention of hardship, we may be denying a truth that whatever we do, we?cannot?escape everything falling apart.

This means that despite our efforts to protect ourselves and run from things like aging, dying, disaster, and loss, we’ll incur these elements of existence nonetheless.

Life can be hard and tough for some.

Tragedies and injustices happen daily.

But what are you going to do about it?

What are you going to do with the hand the was dealt to you??

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Thank you?...Physical pain has distinct biological and psychological components that effectively represent stimulus and response. The biology of pain is the signal transmitted through the central?nervous system that “something is wrong.”

The psychology of pain is the interpretation or meaning we give to that pain signal—the internal?self -talk and beliefs about it which then drive our emotional reactions.

Suffering results from mental and emotional responses to pain. The biological and psychological facets of?chronic pain ?combine to become like a smoke detector that goes on and stays on, continuously sounding a harrowing alarm at high volume.

Recovery from chronic pain distinguishes between the actual pain and the suffering it causes, and focuses on achieving relief from that suffering.

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Pain is unavoidable; suffering is not. It occurs in response to thoughts such as: “Why me?!” “It isn’t fair!” “This is horrible!” “I can’t stand it!”

Suffering in general, as well as specific to chronic pain, is a function of imbalances in physical, mental, emotional, and/or spiritual functioning.

Because whatever affects the mind or the body will inevitably affect the other, regardless of which side of the fence an issue originates, imbalances in thinking can create imbalances in physical, emotional, and spiritual functioning.

Recovery from any significant condition or life challenge is a gradual, progressive, and ongoing process of restoring balance in these areas.

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Suffering is both a cause and an effect of the catastrophic cognitions and distressing emotions associated with chronic pain :anxiety?, irritability,?anger,?fear ,?depression , frustration,?guilt,?shame ,?loneliness , hopelessness, and helplessness.

Negative thinking ??only makes situations we believe to be “bad,” worse. Many people, including those who do not suffer from chronic pain, can ruminate on something by continuously and unproductively replaying it in their minds or magnifying the negative aspects of it.

Our thoughts have the capacity to make us miserable, and negative thinking can be especially insidious, feeding on itself, with the potential to become a self-fulfilling and self-defeating prophecy.

As humans, we cannot escape the impermanent nature of life. The environment changes all the time.

Sometimes life provides us with wealth, and another time life takes from us everything we have. Isn’t it so that we hold on to the illusion of self-preservation by accumulating wealth, an excessive emphasis on self-protection, and the ongoing efforts to maintain what we actually cannot control?

As a culture obsessed with safety and the prevention of hardship, we may be denying truth.

Whatever we do, we?cannot?escape everything falling apart.

This means that despite our efforts to protect ourselves and run from things like aging, dying, disaster, and loss, we’ll incur these elements of existence nonetheless.

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