It has been said that when we become the most comfortable in our lives, we also begin to experience pain. How is this? In my opinion, what happens is that our bodymind now perceives that this is a safe time and place in which to bring to our conscious minds, that which ‘needs to be healed.’

Basically, we cannot heal anything in our lives (physically, emotionally, mentally, or spiritually), when we are under stress and perceive that we are fighting for survival. It is in the ‘down’ times that healing, rest, and rejuvenation occur. Our immune systems, and the rest of our repair/regenerate systems, come back on-line, and we begin the process of healing. During this time, we are also afforded the opportunity to reflect on what we have learned, and how this can assist us in moving forward in our life. Often, this will ‘bring up’ old patterns, thoughts, emotions, etc. We wonder why this would be coming up now.

Each time we move through a crisis, event, learning situation, accessing new resources and strategies, our unconscious mind will bring to the conscious mind opportunities to use this access to new resources and strategies to heal these old patterns.

Remember, pain (in my opinion) is there to point out to us to STOP who/what we’ve been BE-ing/doing, pay better attention, and BE/do some-body/thing different. Therefore, this pain can be a good thing; it assists our mind in focusing on what needs to be healed. If you didn’t have pain from a broken leg, how would your bodymind know what it needed to heal and how would you know to pay attention and move differently to support this healing.

How we do anything, is how we do everything. Therefore, how is emotional or mental pain really any different from physical pains? They are simply cues for us to pay attention to what needs to be healed in our life.

So, I’ll end with a question; Where do you have pain (difficulty, challenges, stuckness, etc) in your life…?