{"id":8016,"date":"2014-11-11T12:37:22","date_gmt":"2014-11-11T17:37:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/?p=8016"},"modified":"2014-11-11T12:53:45","modified_gmt":"2014-11-11T17:53:45","slug":"practicing-pain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/2014\/11\/11\/practicing-pain\/","title":{"rendered":"Practicing With Pain"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"ttr_start\"><\/div><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/la_china_fuera_de_la_caja\/3825822831\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8018\" src=\"http:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Pain.png\" alt=\"Pain\" width=\"640\" height=\"248\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Pain.png 640w, https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Pain-300x116.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>If the pain is going to be there either way, why would I choose to feel it?<\/p>\n<p>If I feel it, I can actually heal it. If I don&#8217;t feel it, I can not know its true state, and I can not start to heal it.<\/p>\n<p>Whether I like it or not, feeling my pain fully is necessary for my healing, for my whole-ing.<\/p>\n<p>I can not reduce my pain when I don&#8217;t acknowledge it. I can not feel more whole and healed when I deny parts of my experience.<\/p>\n<p>When I want to hide from my pain, I remember that in facing it, I start to heal it. Stuffing it down only guarantees I will hold onto these feelings longer.<\/p>\n<p>My pain is inevitable but my suffering is optional. <\/p>\n<p>So I practice feeling it and not fearing it. I practice believing I can face and handle my pain. And ever single time I do, I find I&#8217;m right.<\/p>\n<p><em>photo credit: <a title=\"Len C. Lau\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/la_china_fuera_de_la_caja\/3825822831\" target=\"_blank\">Lein C. Lau<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"ttr_end\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If the pain is going to be there either way, why would I choose to feel it? If I feel it, I can actually heal it. If I don&#8217;t feel it, I can not know its true state, and I can not start to heal it. Whether I like it or not, feeling my pain [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[401,35,403,255,334,402],"class_list":["post-8016","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cultural-creativity","tag-feeling","tag-growth","tag-healing","tag-pain","tag-practice","tag-wholling"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8016","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8016"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8016\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}