Here's a part from Donnie's statement on the blog post Are You Asleep: After all, he doesn't have time to deal with pains in his body. There is just too much too accomplish. His body is 100% pain free. Unfortunately, that's a good sign of how asleep Donnie is.
We are so oblivious to pain in our bodies that even saying we are asleep is not a strong enough statement. Of course, I'm sure you're probably eye-rolling me right now, wondering if I just fell off my rocker and hit my head on the floor.
Safe to say, I'm okay. I didn't hit my head on the floor.
For a long time I was traveling every week and going almost nonstop. I hardly felt pain in my body. There was no time to feel it and if I felt it, it had to disappear because I could not function and do what was required of me. Pain relievers were the go-to if that happened.
However, most of the time I didn't feel pain. In fact, that's how most of us are. We are oblivious to pain in our bodies, even though it is there. Yes, even if you don't notice it, it is there.
How do I know this? Well, when I finally get myself to stop or I go in for a deep healing session with Dr. Paul Canali, the first thing I'm asked to do is feel what is going on in my body. Of course, one thinks that we know what is going on, but until you do this - much of it is hidden. Let me repeat that - much of it is hidden.
The more you stop and notice, the more you'll exclaim like I do in a session, "Oh, I didn't know that was there." We are so unconscious and disconnected that most of the time the pain (and the warning signs of the mind and body) go undetected. We just fail to hear them because we are asleep.
They keep ratcheting up the alarm, and we keep dousing them with unconsciousness and other substances in our day. Then when the alarm has gone as far as it can, the body gets our attention. Usually by that point, things aren't good and require much more medical intervention than we would have had to do if we'd listened to the pain in the first place.
I had someone once tell me that they were sorry to hear I had pain. I'm like, but everyone does - they just don't listen to it. It is messages our bodies are trying to get through our asleep thick skulls.
Pain can be good if we do something conscious with it. If we hide it, then we've inflicted a world of hurt on ourselves. Rather than hiding it, the better thing to do is to go in and feel the pain. Yep, I know - you've probably thought I've fallen again from my rocking chair. Rest assured, I have not.
If pain is overwhelming, we want it gone. That's human nature. However, if you can find body work like what Dr. Paul Canali does, then you learn that by going into the pain, you take control of it and transform it. When you do, a whole new world opens up.
Is that easy? NO IT IS NOT! Is it good in the long run? YES IT IS. Being asleep so much that you don't feel the pain is not a recipe for health and wellness. Too much in our society is built around numbing the pain, rather than going in and interacting with the pain. Too many health conditions are a result of not feeling the pain.
It is past time our world wakes up and begins to deal with pain in the right way. First, we have to recognize it is there and feel it. Once we've made it that far, then we need to go in and have a conversation with it through not only the mind, but through the felt sense of the body. When we learn to interact with it in the body, that's when pain becomes our friend, rather than our foe.
Make sure you check out the next part in this 11 part series
Part 11 is "Asleep By Happy Thoughts"
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