Purpose in Pain

The reactionary response that pain naturally and quite adamantly elicits is one designed to eradicate the pain. Our knee-jerk reaction when in pain is to determine methodologies, or strategies, or obtain resources designed to eliminate the pain as cleanly and as quickly as possible. Any other notion is typically never even considered in light of the compelling and wholly overriding response to terminate the pain.

However, packaged in pain are rich opportunities for growth that are often too concealed within the pain for us to see, much less believe that they are actually there. And even if we perchance know that such opportunities do indeed exist, we would gladly forfeit the whole of them to be free of our pain. This episode suggests that we look for the opportunities in pain as a part of ultimately alleviating the pain.