HEALTH AND WELLBEING

On Pain. 

Pain is an emotion, that we intuitively understand can originate from more than the physical realm, Pain can arise in relation to our financial situations, in relationships, the experience of shame, amongst others. Defined as an unpleasant sensory and or emotional experience, pain is something that unbeknownst we encounter to some degree in our day to day lives. But few of us have understand how to cultivate a relationship with pain, a relationship we begin to develop in childhood. How we relate to and experience pain is complex and shaped by our culture, family and personal histories, thus pain acquires a different meaning to everyone at different times. For many of us pain has become something to suppress, deny, exaggerate. Yet in the context of the human experience our pain is not separable from joy, paradoxically they lie upon the same spectrum. Our capacity to heal, lies in our capacity to feel the pain that is uniquely ours. Susain Cain writes “sorrow and longing can make us whole” and pain can be included in that too. No human existence would be complete without it.

27. March. 2024.