A Journal About Pain

I wanted to share an entry of my wellness journal about pain:

Pain according to McCaffery is "whatever the experiencing person says it is, existing whenever he (or she) says it does". It is can be classified as either physiological, psychological or both physiological and psychological. Proper management is vital in every pain.


We have associated our security, satisfaction, self-worth or freedom with something that we are not getting from persons, society, God, or life as a whole.

Some examples might be when:
1. Others lie to or deceive us. They do not support us when we need them. 3. They reject or criticize us. 4. We fail at some task, which we feel that we should have succeeded at. 5. We loose a loved one. 6. Our loved one shows preference to another. 7. People important to us do not show us the respect we expect. 8. Others do harm to us or our loved ones. 9. We are accused of doing or saying something we did not do. 10. When are falsely suspected of having ulterior motives. 11. "Friends" gossip about us behind our backs. 12. We are not given the raise of promotion we believe we deserve at work. 13. Others do not keep their agreements with us. 14. We are robbed. 15. We lose our fortune in some way.

We feel hurt because we have not received the respect, love, affection, loyalty, truth, kindness and justice that we were expecting.

Whenever I feel pain, I do write them down in a notebook or I type them in my e-diary. I don't know how it helps relieve pain but it really works. Maybe it has something to do with my emotional well-being. But I believe that we are the sole creators of our reality. We as souls create our reality through: our past choices, thoughts, words and action, our present conscious and subconscious beliefs, feelings and needs, the lessons we have chosen to learn at this stage of our evolutionary process. and how we subjectively interpret what is happening.

Though we feel like we can't take it anymore, the good thing of experiencing pain is that it increases our resistance to life's lessons, and makes us strong just like a narra tree and flexible just like a bouncing ball once thrown hard, always bounces higher.

Pain is inevitable. In one way or another, as we travel the road of life, we have experience it a couple of times and soon there will be more to come.