We suffer a lot through our thoughts, more commonly so in the West nowadays than through physical problems. And in meditation we start to recognize that any physical pains that we do have can be made much worse by the attitude with which we hold them. Much the same goes for pain from a mental, perceptual source. Thinking forms a significant part of the way physical pain is held; it is charged with emotional drives that give rise to that ‘trapped, desperate, this shouldn’t be happening’ mood. Then there are the pleasant sensations or mental states accompanied by ‘more of this, this is the way it should be’ and the neutral accompanied by ‘well, shouldn’t something be happening?’ Although these moods do the holding, they in turn are backed up and incited by the thinking process. ‘I was feeling OK until I started thinking about the rotten deal I got, or what someone else is getting, or the way it was, or the way things ought to be…’
Ajahn Sucitto
Mindfulbalance 
I have chronic pain from a triple rollover and a compromised spinal cord. During the initial stages of the surgeries and nerve killing and opioids I lost my willpower. In a chronic pain weekly group, suffering and depression were rampant. Some honored their pain with statements it is so powerful and overpowering. These people for te most part ad given up and resolved to be miserable.
M journe started wit throwing the morphine and narco away and walking to bring the pain out so I could work on it. Pain has such a big connection with the mind and can be ramped up wit stress, fear or depression. So when m pain increased walking I kept p for another twenty minutes.
First I was using my ody to give my mind and body an achievement. I named my pain because it was invisible like air. I gave it human qualities and called it Mr. P. after Mr. C Cunningham on Happy Days. The I exercised as Mr. P was trying to get my legs to stop to quit. Now my willpower overcame the resistance to stop. My own endorphins were then released.
my pain gets zero attention and I have learned to not fear it. yes it eats energy But has no effect on my mind.
Pain cannot hurt us unless it reaches a level where the intensity is to great. otherwise pain is like fear, a warning signal nothing else.
meditate and feel your pain, be with it and know it without fear.The mind can compress fear wt te power of meditation also. Practice and see war you can do.
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