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		<title>The way out of pain is into it</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Our mind does not want to believe this&#8230;.the way out of pain is into it.  Resistance is futile and only makes pain worse.  Dive in to it.  Dive deeper than it.  Know that always,  Always,  there is something mysterious, sublime, and beautiful that is deeper than the pain.  It only reveals itself when we have [...]


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		<title>Cooperating with life, pain, and what shows up today</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It seems to me in our journey living with pain, that one of the central ingredients that is really useful is to cooperate with pain. To allow what is showing up here and now today in my life the space to be here. Just this attitude has a transformative effect and impact. When we agree [...]


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		<title>Smiling with pain when we don&#8217;t feel like smiling!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[At the beginning of learning to smile with pain, we will find that there are often times where we just don’t feel like smiling! We feel much more like screaming, or  yelling, or collapsing, or fighting, or hating, or just simply blanking out the pain. In the process of learning to live well with pain, we [...]


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		<link>http://www.freedomwithpain.com/pain-management/smiling-with-pain-when-we-dont-feel-like-smiling/</link>
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		<title>Cultivating presence to live with pain</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One of the things that has really worked for me in learning to live well with pain is cultivating presence. Presence can be in any form, stillness, inner peace, silence, a sense of joy, courage, compassion, loving kindness, it manifests according to what is needed in the moment. The reality of living with pain is [...]


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		<link>http://www.freedomwithpain.com/pain-management/cultivating-presence-to-live-with-pain/</link>
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		<title>Get over yourself !</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I notice that we are often so self obsessed that we miss the very thing that we are. We miss the qualities of beauty, divinity and presence. We miss the fact of our own goldeness, brightness, and brilliance. We stay focused in our limited small painful existence. When we are in physical pain most of [...]


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		<title>Be like water with your pain</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Our attitude towards our pain is everything. HOW we are with our pain is the key to living well with it&#8230;&#8230;. Thats my take on it anyways. Having lived with various degrees, intensities, types, stages and cycles of pain since I was a small child, one thing I have learnt that doesn&#8217;t work is fighting [...]


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		<title>Crushed, overwhelmed&#8230;. or held and uplifted by pain?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When I really breathe in my own pain, and when I connect  intimately with every other person in this very moment who is in this very same pain as I am, what happens? When I really do this sincerely, the opposite can happen to what my  mind fears&#8230;.mind says how can I bear that much [...]


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		<title>Meeting the edge of struggle and pain&#8230;.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[10 minutes on the eliptical machine this morning feels like a massive challenge. my own personal mini marathon, at the last two minutes Im just using pure will power to keep going. My legs just say no, we cant do this, stop, get off, you are killing us with pain!  Yet something in me says [...]


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		<link>http://www.freedomwithpain.com/pain-management/meeting-the-edge-of-struggle-and-pain/</link>
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		<title>Baking, Smiling and Eating pain</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Living well with pain is a bit like baking a cake, or cooking a really great meal. Whatever ingredients we use and how well we prepare them and work with them determines the quality of the cake or the meal, and even more importantly whether or not its delicious or not! Same with working with [...]


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		<title>Freedom with Emotional pain</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Freedom with Pain principles apply to emotional pain too&#8230;. A dear family member dies, or a marriage or relationship break up happens, or  a friend gets injured in a terrible  accident, or you just have a fight with someone you love and care about&#8230; Emotional suffering comes in so many guises. Yet knowing this one [...]


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		<link>http://www.freedomwithpain.com/pain-management/emotional-pain/</link>
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		<title>Empowering Attitude towards Pain</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]


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		<title>Drugs, a clear mind, and pain relief</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]


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		<title>Finding what&#8217;s deeper than my Pain</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I know this might seem like a massive and difficult step and far away from where we are when we are caught in the midst of our pain. Yet it is true and possible to move into a relationship with pain that is liberating and freeing, when we accept where we are, when we allow [...]


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		<title>Don&#8217;t Tough Out Pain</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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&#8217;m all for pain relief. Modern medicine has done wonders for this type of situation. Why put up with pain when we don&#8217;t need to. It&#8217;s masochistic. I regularly [...]


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		<title>Common sense and pain relief</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Last night I had some friends for dinner, they brought there 7 week old granddaughter with them because the baby&#8217;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 [...]


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		<title>Spaciousness, breathing and pain</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Noticing that inside this very breath is the opportunity to find a spacious freedom. Often it seems so much life is contained inside a small space. There just isn&#8217;t that much space to move or breath. Yet the fact is that this very breath can become a doorway to a spacious, vibrant and beautiful life! [...]


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		<title>Welcoming Pain</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One of the most useful things we can do in our relationship with our own personal pain is to welcome it in. It sort of sounds bizarre and is obviously a really difficult thing to do. Yet in practice it simply works. Over the last month I have had a real life experience of having [...]


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		<link>http://www.freedomwithpain.com/back-pain/welcoming-pain/</link>
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		<title>Listening for the Quiet Guidance Behind Pain</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Its sort of known. We hear about it. And wonder about it and hear the stories of other who have suffered greatly and in their suffering found great joy, or a depth of peace that transforms their life. That is the all this message is. To point to that. To gently and delicately suggest that [...]


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