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These Two are NOT the Same
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“Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.”- Dalai Lama
Dear Friends,
Pain and suffering are not the same. Pain is a communication from the body to let you know that you have damage either to your body or emotional being. It is a warning signal to make changes or break!
Suffering is the toleration of pain or the acceptance that nothing can be done except to “suffer through it”
We are all going to experience pain throughout our lives. Frankly, it can be a good learning experience like when you touch a hot stove when you’re young you learn not to do it again! When we hide the pain with pain killers or other substances like alcohol (hide your pain in a bottle) it eventually will resurface.
Not dealing with the root cause of pain and pushing it to another day, causes suffering. Which isn’t to say that pain can be experienced for prolonged times without becoming suffering. It comes down to attitude. Will you accept and identify with the pain, turning it into your suffering.?
OR
Will you take charge and give yourself some control over that pain and start to help alleviate what ails you?
Think of pain as a communication that your current state of mind, body, or soul does not behoove you. (I just wanted to use that word!) Then take action to change it.
Ken Cluber, the founder of the Leadville 100 running race, was quoted as saying “Make friends with pain and you will never be alone.” On the surface that sounds like there is no way out of pain but what he really was getting at is that pain offers an opportunity for growth.
How so?
Every time you overcome some type of pain that experience puts you on top: YOU DID IT! I can’t do it for you, your MD can’t do it for you, a counselor can’t etc. Nope, all of us are all tools used by you to give you options.
I give everyone multiple options for facilitating health and everyone chooses according to where they are at that time. Many times, a person has to suffer enough before they finally choose to act on some advice given by me or another health care professional. It’s not right or wrong, just that all of us are working through our own stuff.
Below are the herbs that we use to support pain reduction:
When you are in pain, it’s an opportunity for growth and doesn’t have to turn into suffering. Let us help you with that.
God Bless,
Dr. Dan