Pain
in the body
Ah beloved pain
Don’t end your campaign
I know that you are healing
And pain
is the feeling
Not a stain
My loving cells
chime their bells
To say
Hey!
Give some slack
While we put things back
to the order you prefer
Please do not deter
Try not to push-Try not to shove
Signals of pain we send in love
Pain pain go away
Come again some…
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No, no — no!
Pain, pain, don’t go’way
Get your healings done today!
Though I might go on and play
Don’t give up on me, I pray!
NOTE: I dealt with physical pain, pretty much every day, throughout my 35 year career. My reaction was usually to be certain I was moving healthily going forward, and getting on with my work. Often, while continuing working, I would not even be aware of it(the pain). Now, I know, that this was because I was following my passion in the moment. THAT, is a whole different world.
The human body… correction: The community of cells that is the human body, has two types of pain, expected pain, and acute signaling pain.
Expected — and “searched for” — pain is my inner genius following my directions when I “check for” or “expect” pain. As the title (inner genius) denotes, it can find whatever I tell it to.
Signaling pain, is my cells sending the message that they are in the process of relatively major repairs, and to please take it easy on that particular area.
There are several things I have discovered. One is that the body is eternally repairing, putting things right again or adapting them to compensate for some effort that I have decided I am going to keep doing(no matter what). The second is that my inner genius(overseeing those trillions of individuals at their tasks 24/7) can demand a pain signal from most any repairing location in the body — and there are ALWAYS hundreds of them active! Imagine a country of a trillion inhabitants — that’s the human body. The constant repairing taking place is an inconceivably vast public works department. When I search for or expect pain, there are plenty of repair spots who will readily send the requested notifications — pain!
It is my expectation or search FOR it, that orders my genius to demand “all repair sites, signal in!” Yes. Some already repaired sites will chime in as well(phantom pain signals)!
It is a curious thing, that we have vilified the pain signal.
Imagine the difference between spraining my ankle, and crumbling to the ground in regret, fear and worry — possibly swearing that “this must not be!” “No, not now — OUCH!”
and
spraining my ankle and dropping to the ground laughing, “Wow! I can’t believe I did this — thank you, cells, for letting me know, and for getting right to work!”
In the first instance, I feel the initial pain and along with my shock, I resist the intense signals. The complaint is that, IN MY RESISTANCE I am subliminally calling for something to resist!! my inner genius has no option but follow “boss’s orders” and demand continuance of those pain signals from all sites affected — until the resistance no longer calls for them. Those repeating signals are but balancing signals — balancing my resistance. After all, I’ve got to have something to resist!
More recently, I have tried thanking my cells for their pain signals, and then immersing myself into the pain with Love. It’s akin to sending them a loving hug for their efforts. (It takes a lot of energy/effort to relay pain signals) Every time I have done this, I can never recall, afterwards, WHEN the pain subsided, but it did. I’m not sure why that is. Perhaps the fact that when you truly love someone (or something?), you can let them go.
Yeah, maybe that has something to do with it!
Or not.
It is most likely that, once the pain signalers feel my acknowledgment, they refrain and get on with their normal work — HEALING.
