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friday five
March 2010 
~Friday Five: Physical Pain
~Matthew
:: Friday Five :: Week 10 :: Physical pain ::
How to participate: 1) Join holy memes and kosmic blog starters and check it out every Friday for a different set of five questions. 2) Copy and paste those questions (and this message!) into your blog. 3) Tag your entry with the words "Friday Five" and post it. 4) Come back to the pod and tell us about your post. 5) Message suzanne with ideas for next week. Let's spread the seeds!
1) Why is there physical pain?
Because no pain = no gain. Also, when people who have a rare disease in which they feel no pain, it is a very dangerous situation. Just imagine the kinds of terrible things that could happen if you had no conception of pain. We'd probably all be bloody messes... or more likely... EXTINCT.
2) Do you prefer western or eastern medicine? Why?
No preference. Whatever works. Sometimes, I like to combine them together and create concoctions of glory!! I also like Northern and Southern medicines.
3) Describe your own personal experience with pain. Chronic illness? Trips to doctors? Shamans? Hospitals? Accupuncture?
Really? Too much to list!!!! Read this, this, this, and this for a small sample :)
4) Have you or someone you know been miraculously healed?
I guess it depends on the altitude of interpretation and what you mean by "miraculously." Coincidentally, I went to a Shambhala Buddhist talk today, and the speaker told a story of how after giving a speech to a high school class once, a kid asked her about miracles. He said, "In my faith, there are miracles ALL the time. What's so good about your faith? Do you have miracles?" And she replied with, "It's a miracle I'm not a bitch anymore!" I like that one. I was also thankful that miracle had taken place, otherwise I may not have stayed for the rest of the talk ;)
5) What is the biggest healing secret you have learned in your life?
Observation. Be the Witness, not the pain.
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Your answer to question 1 reminded me of a young girl I knew when I was a teenager. She was walking on a frozen river in winter and took a bad fall. She ruptured her spleen but didn’t know it because she had an undiagnosed brain tumor that numbed her sense of pain. She died two days later. So yes, pain is EXTREMELY useful as a signal that something’s off.
How cool that you should take the time to talk to me…. I went swiftly through your story, I'll take my 30 yrs of pain in preference any day……I am glad you have come through as such an incredilble human being……I am in awe Annette
What a sense of humor and authenticity on a subject like this! :)
I like your answers to Qs 2 & 5. Guess why? :)
When I witness y/our pain, I bring you Joy :)
Darina