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How Do We Embrace Pain and Suffering for What They Can Teach Us?
We can choose to learn from pain and suffering.
Everyone experiences pain. Everyone experiences suffering. Not just a few people — EVERYONE.
Pain and suffering are a part of the life experience for everyone everywhere.
Why? Because both are channels for growth. Pain and suffering almost always suck at the time of their occurrence. But afterward, they can teach us amazing and incredibly useful things about life, the Universe, and everything.
Pain and suffering are two very different animals. Both can impact us mentally, physically, emotionally, and spiritually. Each can be incredibly unpleasant — to the point of disabling us in one way or another.
We get to choose how pain and suffering will ultimately impact us.
At the time that whatever happens to cause us pain and/or suffering happens — it simply is. After that visceral immediacy, however, we get to choose how to proceed.
What can pain and suffering teach us? How do we embrace this? Before I get into this let’s better define pain and suffering.
What is pain?
Pain is the word that describes a hurt you receive. It can be physical, mental…
