What I am talking about is pain that we numb or what I referred to in the title as Numbed Pain. It is the pain that we avoid and disconnect from. It is our busy days that keep us from feeling the pain in our body.
Yes, we do numb our pain. We go through our days of stress and nonstop activity, oblivious to the pain and messages that our body is using to get our attention. We often don't want to face the pain, so we stuff it down and hide it.
When I was traveling every week, my life was on constant go from one city to the next with very little rest or downtime. When my head hit the pillow in a hotel room of a strange city, that's when I had the chance to rest. Crossing one time zone after another and sleeping in one strange place to another, I didn't know what rest was.
In addition, I spent most of my waking hours either on the phone being the main support contact or answering emails or planning the next training session. There was no downtime. My body didn't have time to feel all the pains and stresses and issues in the tissues. I automatically and subconsciously avoided it. I numbed out to the pain. I disconnected from it.
Avoided the pain but it impacted my body...
The thing is, even though I was avoiding and numbing the pain, it was still impacting my body. I just didn't realize it nor could I see it. It wasn't until after I quit the job and had massive amounts of downtime that I really started to see just how much of a toll it took on my body.
It is human to numb and avoid, but the more we do this, the more we miss critical notices from our body of what is truly happening in the body and the mind. The more we don't feel what is happening, the more stress and issues we are storing within the cellular components of our body. These things rob us of precious energy and strength. These things rob us of peace in our life.
Oblivious to numbed pain...
All too often we are oblivious to numbed pain. We have been successful at avoiding it and now it is like we are complete strangers speaking two different languages. All the while, it is impacting us in very real biological ways.
If we continue down this road, it will get our attention at some point. We may be able to hide from it, evade it and ignore it. Sooner or later, it will catch up to us and the likes of it will not be pretty.
I'm not speaking from some new age concept here. I'm speaking from experience because I almost lost my life many years ago from numbing the pain. I ignored it and didn't deal with the stresses and trauma I had experienced in life. It showed up as Conversion Disorder after some other events became the catalyst that formed paralysis and a near death experience.
I'm not saying that I'm perfect and have learned my lesson well on avoiding and disconnecting from numbed pain. However, I have done a tremendous amount of work on myself to free myself from the chains of trauma and stress. It is through this physical and biological healing work that I've learned how to transform this into a life I never thought possible.
The thing is that any of us can keep avoiding the pain and not feeling it. The more we do of it, the more chronic it becomes. The more we continue to avoid it, the more it begins to work harder to get our attention. If we continue down this path, the brain will do all it can to keep us alive but other physical realities of our bodies and minds may become nothing more than dead weight.
It is up to each one of us how we choose our life and what we allow ourselves to become aware of each day. If we allow pain to be numbed, we will be sentencing our life to great difficulty. You may be getting away with it at the moment, but just how much longer before your luck runs out and you pass the point of no return?
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