Pain influences growth

Throughout our lifetime we experience either physical and or emotional pain and how we embrace and treat with it is totally dependent on our psyche and of course, the circumstances, which only the person feeling that pain can explain.

Because pain is influenced by other emotions such as guilt, anger or even hurt, for many of us it does not land well.

Similar to positive emotions, negative emotions draw us closer to who we are, and also a stronger understanding of the external environment.

Deep introspection as well as research show that pain is one of life’s greatest teachers and therefore, thinking laterally, presents a unique opportunity for us to embrace pain together with its pleasurable dissimilars.

Pain also broadens our spiritual IQ, which is the beginning of our personal growth which can be painful at times.

There are two distinct phases that are imminent as you grow through pain.

Firstly, due to our passive nature, pain is usually experienced in the sub-conscious; however, as we grow older our understanding as well as our response to pain is different and perhaps unpleasant.

Some of our pain is felt from afar depending on our alignment with the particular situation –events such as war and physical conflicts present this experience.

We grow and learn through the pain felt by the death of a loved one, or the murder of a human being particularly if it is a child. Pain hits harder through family ill-health and broken relationships with someone you truly loved.

When these occurrences take place, our psyche changes immediately with a different level of self-awareness and personal growth.

Opportunities knock for a renewed thinking that says to us, life is constant and would never be the same day to day.

Many of us live our lives with the belief that every day is and should be the same but that is near impossible as our lights must shine differently if we are to be innovative and creative beings.

The effects of pain symbolises the fact that opposites must exist simultaneously, positive must be paired with negative, and happiness with sadness. Stop for a moment and reflect on some of your past painful experiences and there would have been some opposite elements.

Remember pain offers us tremendous opportunities to not only grow but to also uncover new potential.

Sandrine Rattan is a communications/ branding consultant, author and president of the International Women’s Resource Network (IWRN) Contact: thecorporatesuitett@ gmail.

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