Why Pain is a Good Thing

Pain is a good thing. Most people, when they hear this, think: “How is it possible for pain, to be a good thing?”

Because pain is a motivator for you to go in the direction that you need to go. Pain is always telling you something.

What is pain?

Pain is just your brain receiving a message to stop doing what you're doing, to make a change, and to do something different.

Let's say you just so happen to put your hand on the hot stove. That pain is a motivator to click your brain into action, to move, and not to stay in the same position. It's protecting you.

If you're sitting down all day long and your back starts to ache, what is the pain trying to tell you? The pain is telling you to get up because what you're currently doing is not good for your body.

At its simplest form, pain is telling you that you need to move and get out of the current position that you're in, to do something different than what you're currently doing.

Are you listening?

What happens with a lot of people is that when they feel pain in their lives, they feel demotivated and as a result don’t want to do anything.

Instead of listening to the pain and allowing it to set them in motion, they decide to let it paralyze them instead.

Pain is always trying to tell you something. The question is, are you listening? Why don't you get the message? It's right there. It's so clear. Stop doing what you're doing, make a move, and go a different direction.

The universe speaks to you in whispers. If you don't listen, it'll get louder and louder until some massive message has to come by and smack you on the side of your face. It could be that you get sick. It could be that you get into a car accident, you have a massive injury, whatever it is, the universe is always speaking to you.

If you have massive amounts of anxiety, I feel bad for you, but also are you listening to that?

I've been there before. I know what the massive feelings of anxiety feel like and it always comes when I'm not doing what I'm truly supposed to be doing, because pain is a message there to tell you that you’re not doing the right thing and you need to make a shift.

But you’ve got to listen.

So what do you do?

Meditate

As hard as it is to sit down and meditate when I do it for long enough, I start to notice things. I get great ideas and insights into things that I should shift or move in my life. I get these intuitive hits and if I don't listen to it, it gets louder and louder.

Become self-aware

You’ve just got to become very self-aware. The biggest thing that real personal growth will give you is self-awareness. The actions that you take and don't take are affecting yourself and everyone else that you come in contact with.

What is it that you want? It shouldn't paralyze you when you feel the feelings.

Ask yourself these questions: “What is this pain? What is it trying to tell me?”

Take a beat.

If you feel intense, amounts of pain, worry, frustration, anxiety, or fear, take some deep breaths first.

When you're highly emotional, that's not the right time to try to process because when emotion is high, logic is low. When your emotion is high, your prefrontal cortex, which is the thinking part of your brain shuts off, which means you don't make good decisions.

Breath first and begin by allowing your body to feel the feelings. And then after that's all over, sit down with a pen and paper ask yourself these questions: “What am I feeling? What am I supposed to learn from this?” Write it down.

If you've ever been in a situation where you're working hard but you just feel like you're spinning your wheels and nothing's going the way that you want, you may be trying to go the wrong direction and it’s the universe that isn’t allowing you to go that way because that isn’t your path.

Pain is not a bad thing, it’s a good thing. Pain is a motivator. Pain is a messenger, but you have to ask yourself, what is this pain trying to tell me?