The Purpose of Pain (The Spiritual Therapist Explains; Turn Pain into Strength)
As much as we distract, avoid, transmute, heal, or run from pain…it seems to come back. Pain resolved, new pain arrives - resolved, and then new pain in a different costume and a new circumstance. There are many reasons for the repetition cycle, but before even considering why the pain has come back - I promise that you will get further by understanding the bigger purpose of pain before trying to heal it.
(Assertion: In no way is it being suggesting to adapt to any kind of pain, be it psychological pain or otherwise, in order to endure it - things need to change, to heal, to evolve. Pain is not your purpose and it is instinctively natural to work to avoid pain and experience wellbeing).
This is the spiritual psychotherapist approach. Spiritual psychotherapy understands that within every experience there is embedded a lower and upper octave. In other words within any situation (whether you experience the situation as positive or negative) there is the option to evolve and spiral upwards or devolve the downward spiral. We can only be growing in one of these directions. This is where pain comes in -
First a little bit of context about pain…. How do you now that you are in pain? We feel pain (psychological pain, physical pain, spiritual pain) - no matter what kind of pain - within the physical body. Pain is a sensation that is produced by a particular energy pattern, which down steps into an activation of the nervous system. The pattern and intensity in which the nervous system ignites determines the sensation that we experience).
The energy pattern of pain originates as the result of an internal discrepancy. Pain is indicating that there is a misalignment between your ideal conditions and the conditions being experienced.
What kind of pain do you feel? Is the pain originating from an emotional wound? Is the pain resonating spiritual pain? Is it your soul….is it your body’s consciousness?
Pain is terrible…but….
By investigating the pain you will open the door to profound healing, and complete resolution of the pain cycle. This means that pain can be used as a signal to radically transform. When properly understood, the pain experience becomes a map for creating integration and ultimately unshakeable personal strength.
Rachel Anenberg, MSW RSW Integrative Psychotherapy & Healing Work
Working psychotherapeutically, energetically, and spiritually, I will support you to heal and expand. Through an integrative therapeutic approach (combining traditional psychological and interventions like CBT, regression therapy, psychodynamic psychotherapy, transpersonal psychotherapy, energy psychology with spiritual vision and extra-sensory perception.
