Life is busy. If I have a body pain or problem, I don’t always want to feel it. I want it to go away so I can get on with my life. But pleasure or pain, sensation is the voice of the body, guiding me with its innate wisdom that has evolved over billions of years. And since I need my body to live my life, I try to listen.
Pleasure is one way my body says, “Yes.” Pain is one way my body can say, “No.” As one of my clients says. “The body is the score keeper.” Some days the score may seem to be Pain-10, Pleasure-2.
I want to love both the pleasure and the pain. Pleasure is easy to love. But love pain? Yes — I want to love pain like I would love a hurt child, hold her in my arms and ask her what the matter is and help her to feel better.
When I put attention on pain, it will guide me to healing. Celebrating even the smallest decrease in pain encourages my body to heal. When I put attention on pleasure, it allows me grow my awareness beyond my troubles.
It’s good to remember we can still sense pleasure even when we are in pain: the aroma of my tea; the length of my exhale; the angle of the light; the jingly sound of my keys; the touch of my hand to my cheek; the places in my body that are not hurting.
4 responses so far ↓
1 Ruth // Apr 25, 2008 at 1:50 pm
Way cool the whole Blog!
I love the gentleness with pain — like a hurting child — to help it along.
Thank you
2 Beth Heller, LMT // May 23, 2008 at 7:14 am
YES! Sensations are our right…. our gift. We live in a body. It gives us INFORMATION and experiences. WOW, aren’t we the lucky ones?
Thank you for bringing up this topic!
3 Sharry // May 23, 2008 at 9:05 am
What a great reminder to celetrate even the small changes that our bodies make as they heal.
4 Debbie Z // May 23, 2008 at 10:44 am
beautiful website (blogsite?)!
informative, creative and fascinating. It’s you!
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