Pain In The Neck, I Have A Lower Opinion Of You

According to a Time Magazines article on March 7, 2011 acute and chronic pain affects more than 76 million Americans on a regular basis. This means that you or someone you know is probably suffering from acute or chronic pain and they are doing so needlessly. What a shame!

The cover story was entitled "Understanding Pain" which might be a misleading title, but the experts in the article present how they view pain and fortunately or unfortunately their view will have a large influence on the population as a whole for years to come.

Dr. Michel Dubois, of the New York University's Langone Medical Center was quoted as saying, "We don't know much more about pain than we did 200 years ago." This could make one suspicious of the cover story "Understanding Pain".

The sad part of all this is it is coming from leading experts and if they were being truthful there wasn't much known about pain 200 years ago or even all the way back before the middle ages. People still continue to suffer from pain and there are as many reasons as to why as Carter has little pills.

Every person reading this knows that pain is just one of a myriad of sensation our mind-body experiences on an on-going and regular basis. Here we are differentiating between pain (physical) and hurt (emotional). We can address both in very similar ways energetically and for the point of clarity the distinction may be useful. We usually experience pain in a variety of sensations we label as discomfort, irritation, aches, burning, hypersensitivity, pain and/or pressure, itching may also be involved. Other terms we can and often do use are sore, tender, numb, and throb, as in my head is throbbing. We can also include the terms, hurt, suffer, struggle and fight to describe our experience of pain.

The sensations of pain can be a combination of physical and non-physical elements or either physical or non-physical in nature. The non-physical sensations of pain can be easily separated out from the body as involving our mind, our emotions, and our spirit. We can experience pain from the physical level as well as the mental, emotional or spiritual level.

We can have physical pain or we can have it in some combined form with mental pain or emotional pain or even spiritual pain. It might not be an acute physical pain, it could just as easily be a thought that irritates us or an emotion that bothers us.

One thing I appreciate in the "Understanding Pain" issue of Time Magazine was Dr. Oz in his article mentioned, "When pain affects the mind, body and spirit all of those areas must be addressed to improve the human condition."


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