Spiritual concepts
Pain [physical]
To the answer why is there pain? The answer is simply that unless there was physical pain we would not know something was wrong with us. It is an autonomic response, in that cells and organs in our body are simply signalling to our Mind to do something to alleviate what to them is a Threat. The fact we may be unable to do anything is irrelevant to the cell or organ, all it knows is that it is being attacked and needs help and your mind is the commander of the ship they sail on.
One very specific response that you can produce to pain is to lie down, rest and let your Immune system fight the Threat as best it can.
And sleep, if you can sleep, because during sleep the Immune system works at full tilt in repairing. To try to continue operating when the body is sending you messages that it is sick, is not a clever move. Go to bed for a month and sleep it out.
If the body realises that the Immune system has an uphill job on its hands, it will send out - eventually - the body's own natural pain killers, Endorphins, but the wait can be diabolically long.
You do not help yourself if you destroy the receptors in your body that give you pain relief by using, at every slight opportunity, pain killers that bind to those receptors. Taking co-codamol which has opioids in it, for example, will kill off your pain receptors over time as the body adjusts its receptor balance to cater for the ingested neurotransmitter.
Try to find the cause of the pain and tackle that. Only use pain killers as a last resort.
If all else fails go to an opium den [no sorry, I'm joking - or maybe I'm not]
Observations
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- A meeting with her dead mother and 'Jesus' helps resolve a dying woman's anger
- Ades, Eduard and Marguerite - Mrs Ades feels no pain
- Angela Morgan - Work
- Artaud, Antonin
- Ashtavakra Gita - 01 Instruction on Self-Realization
- Aurelius, Marcus - Meditations - Desire
- Boehme, Jacob - Aurora - Demons and adversity
- Bose, Sir Jagadis Chandra - from Autobiography of a Yogi - Paramahansa Yogananda 03
- Bose, Sir Jagadis Chandra - All pain contains an element of pleasure, and that pleasure, if carried too far becomes pain
- Bose, Sir Jagadis Chandra - Plants and perceptions - emotions and pain
- Buddha - The Dhammapada - Magga-vaggo
- Chuang Tzu - Leaving things alone
- Clare, John - O I never dreamed of parting or that trouble had a sting
- Cousins, Norman - Pain and healing laughter
- Croll, Oswald - Preface of Signatures - 01 Preface
- Dandelion and its healing potential
- Descartes, Rene - On pain and the 5 senses
- Descartes, Rene - The subjective nature of perceptions
- Dickinson, Emily - Experience is the angled road Preferred against the Mind
- Eliot, T S - Four Quartets - 05 East Coker III
- Epictetus - The Enchiridion - 10
- George Harrison - This is love
- Hawthorne, Nathaniel - The House of the Seven Gables - On adversity
- Hegel - Philosophy of Mind – Appetite or Instinctive Desire
- Jacques Romano on the Dervishes of Sudan
- Jeremy Bentham - The Principles of Morals and Legislation - On Adversity
- Johns, Andrew Gary - The release from pain that is mania
- Johns, Andrew Gary – The match against Manly Warringah Sea Eagles
- Khan, Hazrat Inayat - The Mysticism of Sound and Music - On 'vibrations'
- Krishnamurti - The Network of Thought - Fear
- Krishnamurti - The Network of Thought - Fear, the pursuit of pleasure, and the burden of greed and pain
- Lowell, James Russell - Through suffering and sorrow I have passed
- Marvin Gaye - The world is just a great big onion
- Music, drumming, pain relief and endorphins
- Nietzsche - On the Genealogy of Morals - Pain is the most powerful aid to mnemonics
- Nietzsche - The Gay Science - The poison which destroys the weaker nature, strengthens the stronger
- O'Reilly, John Boyle - In this brief life despair should never reach us
- Plotinus - The Enneads - As for violent personal sufferings
- Plotinus - The Enneads - It is certain that we shrink from the unpleasant
- Proust, Marcel - In Search of Lost Time Volume IV - On Pain
- Puharich, Andrija - The Sacred Mushroom - Harry
- Ramachandran, Dr V S - Phantom pain
- RobCast No.1 (My plant medicine journey with Ayahuasca and San Pedro)
- Saadi - The Gulistan of Sa‘di – 10 from The Manners of Kings Solitude
- Samuel Johnson - On adversity
- Sefer ha-bahir – Para 34 – The Hebrew letter Chet
- Shereshevsky, Soloman - Feels no pain
- Socrates - Axiochus 366 - The soul and Higher spirit
- Socrates - Epictitus The Enchiridion - Learning from experience
- Sri Anandamayi Ma - The purpose of suffering
- Sri Aurobindo - To Weep Because
- Tahra Bey - With knife in chest
- The Cloud of unknowing
- Theodore Roethke - In a dark time, the eye begins to see
- Travelling Wilburys - Not alone anymore
- Use of movement therapies and relaxation techniques and management of health conditions among children
- Watts, Alan - To strive for pleasure to the exclusion of pain is to strive for the loss of consciousness
- Whitman, Walt - Leaves of Grass - The pleasures of heaven are with me
- Yerka, Jacek and André Maurois - On suffering
- Yerka, Jacek and Luigi Pirandello - Six characters in search of an author
- Yerka, Jacek and M Kathleen Casey – The Promise of a New day