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Pain is a context, or how you interact with experience

Did you know...
...that pain is just intense feelings and sensations resisted and made wrong? Calling an intense sensation or feeling pain only means that you are holding it in a negative context, that is, you are making it wrong. If you are having pain in your knees, for example, it means that you are comparing what you are feeling in the knees now to what your knees usually feel like, and then conclude that something is wrong. Since you are not used to such intense feelings and sensations, and since you’ve already made them wrong, you immediately start resisting them, that is, not feeling them and trying to get rid of them. But what you resist not only persists: the more you resist it, the more it hurts. The very resisting it is what makes it hurt.

At any moment you are experiencing exactly whatever you are experiencing. Comparing it to something else turns the experience into pleasure or pain. However, no matter what is happening in your body, if you surrender to it and compare it not, you’ll experience only “pleasant” energy flows.

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