Pain as Energy

This last month I've been sitting with what it means to change or shift our mindset around pain. Particularly I've been exploring if it's possible to think of pain as a form of energy?

Naturally we already have energy swirling throughout our being, which sometimes that energy is more prominent and at other times more dormant. That energy is prominent in times when we are working out, or when we may be experiencing more physical or emotional sensation. And that same energy can become more dormant or calm, when we are resting, or at ease in our being.

Language is a huge part of our somatic awareness and connection to the sensations that arise in our bodies. In my own practices in meditation, chanting, sitting with myself and my beloveds, I've begun to think of pain as energy, which ebbs and flows just like a wave.

So as someone navigating pain in the body, is it possible to shift that mindset?

To view pain as energy, to sit with our discomfort, to ride the wave as energy, to be with sensation.

To allow that sensation be a reminder that we are human. To remind us to be more mindful of our bodies that navigate the physical and emotional realms of being human.