I've been in pain for the last 4 days - crippling pain thanks to my monthly cycle. But it's not without reason. The pain and cramping comes is a by-product of a natural body function. Pain as reminder of fertility.
Pain is good sometimes. Like this morning, when the water glass broke while my hand was in it, pain let me know that I needed to get my hand out and tend to my wound. Pain as protector.
You stub your toe. Pain, intense pain but only for a minute or so. This pain is there to remind you not to stub your toe. Pain as deterrent. Highly effective.
But physical pain is easy, easy to set aside.
Then there's the pain of heartbreak - that heart/gut wrenching pain that comes with loss of loved ones or the end of a relationship. This pain leaves you writhing on the floor with no end in sight. Pain as ...?
This pain is a little harder to understand, because it serves no actual purpose. Or does it?
I believe that we're all connected - but that through our relationships with people those ties become stronger. We absorb their energies into our own and they become an extension of our energetic bodies.
But the mind can't distinguish between the physical and energetic body. Severing an emotional/spiritual bond with a close one is as painful as severing an arm, because in a way, they have become a part of you.
By feeling the pain of loss, you're feeling through your second body, your energetic body. It reminds you that you are not a self-contained, vacuum-sealed packet of energy - your spiritual body extends in all directions, across time and space, connected still to every person who has ever touched your life and every person whose life you have affected.
Pain as reminder of our true nature.
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