Pain is a part of an embodied human experience

What if we stopped running away from pain? What if we allowed pain to be a valid part of our human experience? What if we allowed ourselves to experience the full gamut of everything that the human body has capacity for?

I am not advocating for pain to be the only way. I do not think it is our birthright as human beings to suffer unnecessarily. What I am advocating for is space for the liminality of our human existence, the betweenness and the axis of pain to pleasure.

When we run away from pain, and we have seen this in our society, then we aren't honest with ourselves, and as a result we are certainly not honest with the world and the state of the world. And this leads to some very terrible imbalances and inequality. This slips over into our spiritual work, which leads to, again, this idea of healing as being the end goal. Running away from pain, or never wanting to feel pain. Having an embodied experience doesn't mean you don't feel pain. It doesn't mean that you're in a stasis of calm or peace. Experiencing embodiment means you feel into what's happening in every single moment. So what if we didn't run from pain? What if we accepted it as a part of our lived experience and celebrated it that way? We made space for its existence, and we allowed that. What would happen?