Know that one day your pain will become your cure.
Jalāl ad-Dīn Rumi (1207-1273) Persian poet
“It’s taken me a while to understand that pain is part of life. In fact, one of the problems with chronic pain is expecting it not to be there and this adds layers of chemical reactions to the pain. All of us spend a large amount of energy trying to avoid pain because it’s very stressful. Whether it’s emotional or physical pain, once you allow the pain to be part of who you are, it actually ceases to become the pain as you simply move on to the next experience.
That’s not to say that you have to like unpleasant experiences. But if you start avoiding the unpleasant experiences you start editing; you start adding interpretations which blows the experience way out of proportion and starts to disable you.”
David Hanscom, M.D.
author of Back in Control:
A Spine Surgeon’s Roadmap Out of Chronic Pain
