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All of our human brilliance only acts to complicate our disassociation from pain as we can also co-opt sex, work, entertainment, food, exercise and even meditation to help us avoid uncomfortable feelings, depleting the deep satisfaction that we could otherwise derive from these normally healthy, productive and pleasurable activities. When we continue to resist feeling the pain, our bodies and lives just turn up the volume.
So when our habits lose their power to distract, our mainstream health-care culture will support us to hire professionals to help us avoid pain. We can get pain killers and anti-depressant medication, or we can have them remove the offending parts all together. My fiancé is a hospice chaplain, and her countless stories of the suffering that a lot of people endure in their last hours confirm that, unless life suddenly lets us off the hook when we get hit by a bus or when our parachute fails to open, we're going to have to surrender to the truth that resistance to pain only begets more pain.
All of our human brilliance only acts to complicate our disassociation from pain as we can also co-opt sex, work, entertainment, food, exercise and even meditation to help us avoid uncomfortable feelings, depleting the deep satisfaction that we could otherwise derive from these normally healthy, productive and pleasurable activities. When we continue to resist feeling the pain, our bodies and lives just turn up the volume.
So when our habits lose their power to distract, our mainstream health-care culture will support us to hire professionals to help us avoid pain. We can get pain killers and anti-depressant medication, or we can have them remove the offending parts all together. My fiancé is a hospice chaplain, and her countless stories of the suffering that a lot of people endure in their last hours confirm that, unless life suddenly lets us off the hook when we get hit by a bus or when our parachute fails to open, we're going to have to surrender to the truth that resistance to pain only begets more pain.
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