Unravelling Stuck Pain (Part 1)

Right,

What is pain?

So the International Association for the Study of Pain,

They have a pretty good definition,

At least one that most of society agree with,

Which is an unpleasant sensory and emotional experience that is associated with actual tissue damage or potential tissue damage.

But,

And so they're kind of talking more in a physical sense,

But then also that potential danger is associated as well on an emotional level.

But the functional purpose of pain,

We have this programming in us to tell us that something is harmful or potentially harmful.

But of course,

It can only tell you that within the abilities of the nervous system or the physical nervous system.

And I would like to just have a side note,

Say as a side that just because you have pain doesn't necessarily mean that something's wrong.

But in an immediate sense,

If you had pain,

Such as like if you're stepping on a nail,

Then it would be very functional to have that pain.

We don't want to get rid of the pain because we see a lot of a good example is quadriplegics,

Right?

Paraplegics where they are constantly hurting their legs from knocking it as they're in the wheelchair because they can't feel that pain.

And so they also can't have that awareness of how to protect themselves.

And then also there's a lot of silent diseases out there.

So just because you have pain doesn't actually mean that something could be terribly or fatally wrong.

And it's good to look at it in that context so that the health anxiety can exacerbate the whole experience.

And so it tells you something is potentially harmful or harmful,

And then it activates your withdrawal reflex.

And so then you're extinctively drawback to protect yourself and prevent any further harm.

But then with stuck pain,

It's dysfunctional in the sense,

Not that it's necessarily fully dysfunctional because there is a message.

It is telling you something's not quite right.

Just the sense of having pain consistently is being out of alignment in some way,

But it is serving no real immediate purpose in that there's nothing to draw away from.

Normally with the stuck pain,

The event happened a few months ago.

It happened 10 years ago,

But you're still experiencing the pain now.

And there's nothing to draw away from,

But it's exactly the same as functional pain.

It's hard to differentiate between the two.

And so then often we react to it the same way.

And so the stimulus is already gone and yet we're still having that experience.

This is a quote that I really like.

I saw it about maybe 15 years ago,

But it still resonates in me and it still brings that.

I still remember it when I first read it and the insight that I got,

But Osho has written the pain's not to make you miserable.

The pain is to make you aware.

And when you are aware,

Misery disappears.

And that's a beautiful quote.

He has more that he's talking about beforehand,

But that's the general gist of it.

So let's just quickly go over stuck pain so we can get into the good stuff.

But the extent of stuck pain.

So the stuff that we,

The pain that we associate with,

You could have pain that's physical in that sharp,

It's throbbing.

It could be dull and aching.

You could have localised in one area or all over systemically.

It can be caused by injury.

It can be a mysterious onset that happens to a lot of people.

And then it can be this consistent pain or it could be a regular.

And then it could also be in certain situations such as through movement.

And then the emotional association that is common is sadness,

Despair,

And loss.

That's really well,

That's really well commonly considered,

But then ongoing anxiety,

Feeling wired all the time,

That can be a painful experience for a lot of people because there's no relief.

Also dread and terror,

If that's ongoing,

Feeling stuck in an unhappy situation and not knowing what to do,

Or even having a goal that seems impossible.

Every time you try and achieve that goal,

You're in this sort of stuck situation where nothing changes and you're either lost or you're frustrated.

And it can be quite painful for people,

Even though we don't consider it pain.

This one,

The head hurting when trying to learn,

Figure out this is my daughter.

When she was at school,

She would,

When she would starting to study,

She would get on sets of headaches.

And it wasn't that she,

She actually didn't enjoy the study,

But it wasn't that she was doing it.

She wasn't lying about it.

She would actually have tension headaches that would occur because she was trying to figure it out.

Most people that would just activate something in her.

And she's inherited from her father,

But most people would also have some type of your head hurts because it's trying to figure out,

But it's not a physical pain like her agony from itching on this one's more personal where,

You know,

Like you have rations or you have allergies.

And as that intensity grows,

It can be quite agonising to,

To not have relief from that,

Pulling yourself out of bed to exhausted,

To get through the day that can create a quite painful existence in your life and make life generally hard racing thoughts with no relief.

So I often find with the racing thoughts is that there's usually a suppressed emotion in that.

And the body's trying to count her and we'll talk about that later,

But also when you have allergies that can also onset.

And then there's people who have associated the emotional suppressed emotion with the allergies as well,

But that racing thoughts and not having the relief is,

Is also a representation of stuck pain.

And then just generally being overwhelmed as well,

Even though you'd probably be quite numb,

But that stuck experience is painful in itself.

So I wanted to have,

I wanted to talk quickly about,

This is probably the best story in terms of classic myths that talk about pain.

There's a story of Chiron,

Which is a Greek figure,

Greek myth figure.

He's a half centaur,

Half horse,

And he was also immortal.

So centaurs generally weren't immortal,

But he,

Through his birth condition was immortal.

And he was also a healer and teacher for great warriors like Achilles and Hercules and Jason of the Argonauts,

If you know your Greek myths and for a chain of events,

He was hit by a poison arrow made from the poison of the hydro,

Which was a multi-headed water monster.

And that because he was a mortal,

It caused an unhealable wound in him.

And from that cause unbearable pain.

And since he was a mortal,

He would never die.

So then he would be,

He was stuck with that pain and he tried everything because he was very knowledgeable.

He was a healer himself and he could heal everybody else,

But he couldn't heal himself.

The pain got so bad that he longed to die.

He couldn't handle it anymore.

And he learned of the Titan Prometheus and Prometheus was being punished daily in Greek,

In Hades,

In Greek hell for stealing fire from the gods and giving it to men.

And he was chained to a rock that the stories of Hades in the Greek myths,

Like this continual torture that people experience.

And for Prometheus,

He was chained to a rock and a eagle would come and eat out his liver on a daily basis.

He would regenerate overnight cause he was immortal.

And then it would happen again.

And the condition was that the only way he could free himself was to be replaced or to swap with another immortal.

So Corrin found out about this and chose to take his place.

So he went to the gates of hell,

Descended down into the underworld,

Found Prometheus and swapped over with him and gave,

Gave the position,

Allowed that position to be taken.

And so Zeus,

The God of gods found out about that and took pity on him and his selfless act and freed him to be immortalised in the stars as Centaurus.

So you might look at the story in face value and think,

Well,

You know,

If I martyr myself,

If I do a selfless act,

Then my pain will be relieved.

But that is kind of a superficial way of looking at it.

And we're going to go now into the general process of unravelling stuck pain and associating it with Corrin story.

So I've put it into four steps and there's a quality for each one to generally instill in you to,

To make the process better,

To make it,

To go deeper into the process.

So the first one is to understand the languages of the body and using curiosity to understand it.

And I'll talk about the four segments a little bit later.

But each segment,

Just,

Just to keep in your memory or consciousness is that each segment has its own language.

So the physical body has its own language in the sensations.

The emotional body has its own language and emotions.

And each of those in any pain or discomfort is a doorway,

An opportunity for you to,

To walk through so that you can start shifting that and bringing purpose to that.

And then surrender and allowing is the next step.

And that's unravelling to the core.

And the concept is of the iceberg effect,

Right?

Like what's happening on the surface isn't necessarily what's happening underneath.

So you need to go down to the layers and get down to the core to find out.

And if you re if you working on the surface level,

Things aren't going to change as effectively as it might,

It might change,

But it might take a very long time.

If you get down to the core and then things can change in a much faster sense.

And so this is where Chiron went,

Went to the gates of hell and descended down into the underworld,

Right?

To get to the core,

To get to where Prometheus is.

And the next step is generosity,

Which is where you give us the space to allow that core resolution because something is still unresolved in you and giving it the space and the acknowledgement and whatever it needs to help resolve that.

And here Chiron did a generous act where he swapped over and in a way leaned into the pain,

Right?

He leaned in and fully embraced it instead of trying to fix it or make it go away.

And then the final part,

The final step is the willingness for a new paradigm and an expansion and that's where the real transformation happens.

And it's funny when people are in pain and they don't want their pain,

Right?

But then when you try to open them up to expanded reality or joy,

That seems to be the last thing that they want to do.

It's almost like it's impossible,

But that willingness is what makes the real shift and a permanent shift.

But there is something going on with a lot of people who are in stuck pain where they're not willing to allow that new paradigm to come in.

Oh,

And I'll just go back to that.

So that's where Chiron gets immortalised.

He gets brought to a new paradigm,

Right?

He's in the stars and yeah,

To a place where pain doesn't exist anymore,

Right?

Like he's immortalising the stars outside of the humanly and earthly plane where pain doesn't exist anymore.

And I'm going to go through some kind of background things before we move into the exercise just to give you context.

But there's a great saying that I love and maybe not everyone believes this,

But I love this one and it's,

We are not human beings having a spiritual experience.

We're spiritual beings having a human experience.

And this was attributed to Teoha Dixaron or Gurdjof.

Nobody quite knows who it was attributed to.

I think Dr.

Wayne Dyer was also attributed to this,

But it is,

Well,

I mean,

I guess you'd want to be the person being attributed to a great phrase,

But even if you don't believe in a more spiritual experience,

Definitely we're all aware of this human experience and inside this human experience,

It doesn't have to be,

But suffering seems to be part of the whole human experience or something that we've gotten used to experiencing inside of us and the humanness of us,

I call the vehicle and that's the ego personality and Alice Bailey is probably the best person to attribute this model that I've adopted from her.

I think it's been attributed to yogic philosophy as well,

But I haven't seen that.

I've seen it definitely in Alice Bailey's work who has the esophageal philosophy that she's,

She worked on throughout her life.

And so the four segments are the physical body,

The etheric or energetic.

And so that's most well known as the meridians of the body,

But there's more than that.

Then there's the emotional aspect of humanness.

And then there's the mental limited aspect.

There are higher minds and there's more spiritual beyond this plane,

But in this sense,

I like to,

I personally just like to focus on the humanness and I'm interested in how to transform suffering and things like that.

So it doesn't mean that the other spiritual planes are not relevant.

I think they're fully relevant,

But that's why I'm focused so much on the human experience.

And then each segment has a different language.

So the physical has the language of the sensations and the etheric has energy.

A lot of my clients do are usually well versed in this,

But not everybody in society is so well versed in the energetic realm.

And then the emotional is emotions obviously,

And mental is thoughts,

But we're talking more in the limited sense.

So it's like the limiting beliefs and limiting thought patterns.

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