Pain is potentially positive; it informs us we are out of balance with ourselves and/or our environment. All pain, whether on the micro level of a head ache or on the macro level of a terrorist attack can be a potential teacher. Every experience, including pain, gives us an opportunity to know and create our self. Yet, in our search to stop pain, we have been told to mitigate pain by other means besides coming back into harmony with our self and environment. We do this knowing such a response will not stop pain permanently. For instance, instead of learning to relax, distress, improve diet, exercise and sleep, we take pain killers, just as corporate media tells us to, to dull our head ache. Instead of stopping being the biggest e
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