Pain

There are many types of pain.

I heard a comment the other day, it said.... "In some cases, pain is useful - it alerts us to injury for example - but often it has no use". This is foreign to nature. 

All pain is an indicator of something amiss. However confusion comes about because there is 'good' pain and 'bad' pain. We often don’t know the difference.

If someone stands on your foot, this is good pain. It is telling you to change something. Bad pain is largely that which cannot be changed. And here is where the confusion lies. It stands to reason that if a system that works well in a certain way  starts to collapse or pull down, there will have be consequences. Even the Tower of Pisa has its problems; it has to be propped up!

So too with the human system or organisation! From childhood (where the organization works well), to growing up, many changes take place. These changes happen in such small increments that we are usually unaware of the differences. And one day we start to experience pain.

This is good pain.... arthritis, neck pain, back pain. It is telling you that it is time to SIT UP and TAKE NOTICE. For example: After a broken arm is healed and had physio, the surrounding (compensating) muscles may not recognise to let go. This then becomes a habitual fix which slowly becomes more painful.

Sometimes, this pain is assumed it is not getting enough exercise, when it may be that the organisation need be re-educated.

If you answer 'yes' to more than five questions below, this may be the case for you:

• Do you have constant pain in your neck, back, hip joint, knee joint, or ankles?
• Does your pain stop you from carrying on normal activity e.g. tying your shoelaces or doing the cleaning?
• If you bend down to pick up something, do you struggle to get up again?
• Does pain keep you awake at night?
• Do you constantly take pain killers?
• Does pain stop you from working?
• If you are working, do you take more than four days off a month for pain?
• Do you find standing for more than fifteen minutes painful?
• Is walking curtailed because of pain?
• Even after physio, treatment or a massage, within two weeks the pain is back?

It is a strong possibility that this is nature’s way of saying TAKE NOTICE.... time for a change.