Dealing With Intense Physical Pain 

Sending love and support to anyone watching this while experiencing great suffering! You are not alone. 💙 For years, I shared a weekly meditation gathering for patients suffering with chronic pain. Their intense willingness to become vulnerable and to let go into presence was very humbling. “Fierce grace” is quite accurate.

Thank you to the person who dared to ask about physical pains as most of Advaita teaching address mainly the issues with thoughts and emotions rarely acute physical pains. And most grateful to hear the answer, especially clarification of not imposing" I have to accept pains" 😊😊😊

Thank you for posting this clip. Rupert’s response meant a lot to me.

My respect goes out to Karen, she must be a strong soul, because 'you never get more than you can bear,' and she can bear a lot. Sending you my love

I don't know who sent this but I recommend the book Grace and Grit by Ken Wilbur. It's about his relationship with his wife who was dieing of a rare form of cancer. It's one of the most raw, honest, and beautiful books about illness and being conscious through the process from both partners.

Pranam Rupert Your valuable answer lifted the load of guilt that I felt during any intense physical pain.The conflict between a strong desire to get rid of pain and acceptance of pain.Acceptance of Resistence....contained in Total acceptance. 🙏🙏🙏

For anyone going through this, I know how it feels and my heart is with you. What helps me a lot with integration of intense trauma information is cbd oils (smooths out fight or flight in the nervous system) and circular breathing (processes the trauma information out ) and somatic intuitive movement (helps relax and also move the painful information through the body. God bless You.

Thanks, Rupert, these clips that you and your team spend so much effort uploading etc. are fantastic. This topic is a tough one and your warm hearted response was really lovely.

Dear dear Rupert You are the very embodiment of compassion and all that you said is accurate like an inside revealing. Thank you. Thank you thank you.

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Thank you Rupert, needed to hear and understand that... As suffering from acute chronic physical pains, I have also tried to practice acceptance, and it only increases the pains... For dull pains, emotions, disturbing thoughts, the direct non practice of acceptance works and all that remains is Peace😊😊😊. However, for acute physical pains that's more challenging... So abiding without trying anything ❤

Not sure about this answer given by Rupert to be honest. Sometimes some more practical advice is called for. If you are in such dire straights with constant unbearable pain you need to find a physician who can prescribe self administered pain relief or a constant care regime. No amount of well intentioned words as concepts will touch this kind of bodily pain. Ramesh Balsekar would often say I can’t help you with this … if you have a toothache you need to go and see a dentist. I can only help you to maybe find peace of mind in daily living which you will find if it is God’s will.

Beautiful Teaching 🙏🏼

Maybe I can offer some information that can help dealing with chronic pain. At least it helped me a lot to see the roots of my suffering. Body and mind are not separate. So when you are dealing with chronic pain your mind is also involved but that is normally on an unconscious level. But it is possible to inquire into these unconscious beliefs. Let's assume that every feeling is there to help you. While trying to be in peace with the feeling you can ask the feeling directly "What is it that you want to tell me." and then wait and see what stories come up. From there you start the inquiry and dig deeper and ask "What does it mean? Why is that a problem?" It takes a bit of practice. Important is an open mindset based on the feelings you are having. Its not really thinking about it. It's more opening the space to let the answer come up. You can always test the relevance of the thought by observing your feelings. If it is relevant it is kind of "sticky". There will be a reaction in your body. How does it feel to claim the opposite? It's not about proving that the story is right or wrong. Just becoming conscious of what you are telling yourself will help you. You might want to have a look at the channel of Scott Kiloby. He is not as eloquent as Rupert. But he has very helpful information on this topic.

Wonderful and realistic answer.

I love this.

i have heard Sadhguru say, to paraphrase, there are three types of physical pain. 1) from accidents, which may or may not be your fault. 2) infections of various types, which again could just happen to you. 3) chronic illnesses, which he suggest is a result of bad choices in you environment/living conditions, or choices you make in life style that bring about a physical/emotional/mental imbalance, which translates into physical pain. in my experience, unfortunately, there is one other aspect that can create pain in the body. this is not easy to talk about in a very literate fashion, but, i will give it a shot. ... if you can appreciate the sense of emotional and physical aspects of "balance" (stability / well being) are about recognizing (being Aware), in terms of the Ying/Yang, or the dynamic state of equilibrium that is present in the experience of compassion and loving. this suggest that the forces acting on the human experience are both a "pushing" and a "pulling". it suggest our experience is governed by the terrestrial world and the electromagnetic spectrum, which speaks of polarities as integral to basic forces in consciousness. the stability of the human experience is how well you can recognize this within your experience, as a "grounding state". in this respect, if you can not see yourself as the "unbroken thread" and "body as a column", within the energies at work in the terrestrial world, you are likely to be susceptible to energies that might create "breaks" in the "flow", create "congestion", which disrupts the bodies harmony with its environment. watching the breath/breathing or the acting of it within the body can be very important as a "push/pull", and in combination with your posture ( or perhaps some Yoga exercises), can aid in the identification of certain types of "blockage" or "corruption". this "corruption", might be viewed as forces working as degradation, or challenging your lack of Awareness, or a would be "argument". in this respect, to have a fundamental state of compassion and loving in nature, is to attempt to be understanding as to how you might have erred and your willingness to resolve this condition, to be the Truth that you are. its not literal conversation, but, knowing the nature of "Truth" is in being WHOLE, which is to be with the forces governing the human experience. to fight against the "argument" or imposition, or ignore it, is to act with little to no compassion/love. also, a subtlety that is not apparent is the "root" from which the "pain" is located. you may feel the Pain in one location, but thru watching the breath, simple posturing, and simple "push/pulls" within each you can come to know where the congestion is located, (a result of how "push/pull is manifested by forces that act as degradation as well. ( T'ai Chi, and the Tao Te Ching are excellent reference text/meditative practices ). ones life style may not be as healthy as one would like to believe. knowing the nature of the TRUTH of being, is what the divine or "life eternal" is about... okay, this is a "sketch" of how pain manifest in the body. becoming sensitive to these forces/conditions is every ones responsibility. it is really sad to realize so much pain in the world is the result of not knowing about or being able to put in to practice, that which allows for us to be healthy and Whole. but then again, as natural as it is to find the divine, it is not an entitlement.

I have been suffering from 1 form of extreme pain to another off and on for the past 10 years. It has broken me in ways I didn't know existed inside myself. The ways in which I cope are not healthy and at the age of 40 I've now lived 22 years more than I had planned. I've been seriously contemplating suicide for the past few years and I don't think I will be able to hold off much longer. My daughter turns 18 December 21st so I'm gonna make sure I stick around until some time after the first of the year and I don't want her to know I commit suicide so I will more than likely just make it look like a bad car accident or carbon monoxide or a drug overdose all threw would be quite easy to pull off . I've been a drug addict for the past 10 years anyway so that wouldn't surprise anyone

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Hi Karen, my love goes out to you as well 🥰🇨🇦

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All this is so comfusing for me. I have so much anxiety and want nothing more than for it to go away. How should I think?

Yes but at a practical level how do you separate from the intense pain without something like iv ketamine?

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Just an honest question, what about torture, like if a terrorist mutilated your appendages and you say with the pain and fear for hours, would you not be so sensitized you are constantly a suffering separate entity fearful, or would you abide anyway as it is anyway just pain becomes so intense you go into a coma of consciousness, probably after an intense wave of screaming as a fragmented entity super deluded into thinking this is happening maybe it’s still not a refute but the fact that this can happen as a possibility is frightening and real and would it be possible to endure is my basic question if you had not other choice

In such circumstances you have to learn how to go out of body. Suffering isn’t necessary and staying in a painful body would continue the hardship. Out of body frees you. You are not obligated to stay in a torture cell.

I can feel with her going through immense pain.i was told that my pain which is genetical is caused by karma...of have been a murder in past life times...this let me feel only more guilty and fearfull

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Don't resist the resistance

May the Lord Jesus heal you, as he healed so many in the past and still today. His healing consciousness is identical to you.

He said so much, without actually saying anything! Basically, deal with it. WTF!

Karen, try Faster Eft

Help all heal all 🙏🙏🤍🤍

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