My attitude towards pain and suffering determines whether I grow and mature and become empowered through pain or stay stuck as a victim to pain. When I can eat, gently, slowly and mindfully, and sort of  chew my suffering and pain the freedom of the potential of who I am is revealed. This freedom can [...]

Recently during a bad period of serious acute pain I made the decision to stop taking all the narcotics ( morphine etc ) and just do the marijuanafor pain relief. I did that, i started to just accept the fact that pain was probably not going to go anywhere fast and the sooner I could make [...]

Why tough out pain? We need to discern clearly what is what in each situation that we find ourselves when confronted with pain. In acute trauma I’m all for pain relief. Modern medicine has done wonders for this type of situation. Why put up with pain when we don’t need to. It’s masochistic. I regularly [...]

Last night I had some friends for dinner, they brought there 7 week old granddaughter with them because the baby’s mum was in real pain. She had mastitis, which is when the ducts block when breastfeeding. It can be excruciatingly painful, and was so for my friends daughter. Anyways we obviously got to talking about [...]