What a pain! Pain in the butt! I went to great pains to……
P A I N, four letters which hardly conjures up positive thoughts or
feelings for us does it?
How many types of pain have you experienced? Back pain?
Headaches?
Physical pain? Financial pain? The pain of losing someone? The pain of
putting up with someone? All pain is derived from something within us
which is at odds with our well-being.
For example, financial pain can be triggered by a fear or
worry.
Headaches can be derived from tension, frustration, tiredness, excess
alcohol etc.
At a deeper physical level, when we carry unresolved emotional
concerns, this causes disharmony in the body which can manifest into
physical pain, illness or disease. Any of these are derived from
negative memories (often subconscious), or emotion lying trapped and
often hidden in our neurology.
Often our first reaction is to take a pain killer or alcohol
to numb
the pain. I'm not judging these actions as I have used them myself as
have my family. But with life experience, extensive research and
personal gain, I have discovered that lying beneath all symptoms of
pain is a situation or memory causing the pain, physical illness or
disease.
A worthwhile and fascinating read is Louise Hay's "You Can Heal Your
life".
Personally I had years of back pain when I farmed. I used to
believe it was either hereditary, wear and tear or the inevitable
result of ageing. Now I know differently. Why? Because I explored, read
and informed myself, until I understood the cause of my back pain and
eliminated it.
In my case the lower back pain was living with a subconscious fear of
failing in business: nothing to do with feeling short of money but more
a fear of the possibility of losing it. Admittedly it was a good
motivator in helping me with all my success but with time, it took its
toll on my physical body. Yes I got help with managing the physical
pain but with the setting in of age the pain required constant
attention and specific physical stretching and exercise to make my life
manageable and my body mobile.
Car seat comfort for me was a hit or miss: usually a big miss! Sleeping
away from home on strange beds regularly meant poor quality sleep. Long
haul flights were uncomfortable and sore. This was the main reason I
gave up farming. Was it the Doctor, Osteopath or Reflexologist that
cured me? No!
These great people certainly did their best and made my life
more manageable. But coping and managing the symptoms had become a way
of life until my late 40s. Now, having used personal development to get
to the root cause, I genuinely am able to do anything I wish to, have
the flexible spine of a 25 year old, at 55 years of age, without
excessive regular twice-daily stretching. Car seats are no longer an
issue, nor foreign beds or long haul flights uncomfortable.
Thank God for personal development and all its benefits. The most
reassuring thing for me is that it is what nature intended for us all.
Maybe it's the big change to the new world order we are experiencing
that is highlighting all of this now. It’s a bit like life offering us
an invitation to free ourselves of all types of pain. We just have to
have the desire and humility to accept it and embrace it.
Life can be easy… with everything.
Have a great week
Billy
