pain causes a lethargic depression, and under natural circumstances the animal in pain does not have long to bear this.
It dies.
Enter man, with his rules and regulations. Dying is not allowed. Those in chronic, insoluble pain are restrained, bound to the bed and force fed if need be, and maintained in agonizing pain indefinitely. This frequently presents a situation
that flies in the face of what the populace has been told by the religious elite - that a benevolent God is listening to
their prayers. Those forced to live in pain and those watching this agony then conclude that they are either being
punished or ignored. The problem here is not that God is failing to descend to fix the pain. The problem is that
mankind has not learned how to deal with God's natural Universe, one of the lessons during spiritual growth.
Beyond the attitude that pain must be borne, stoically, while the body is being maintained indefinitely, humans also
burden themselves with unnecessary pain. The vast majority of the pain experienced by humans, even debilitating,
chronic pain - is psychological or psychosomatic, induced by the mind. This is not to say that real inflammation or
pressure on nerves might not be physically present. This is to say that the inflammation has been caused by the
individuals mental state, anxieties, desire to avoid situations, repressed rage, or lack of consideration for their physical body. One has gas pains but fails to eat roughage. One sprains wobbly joints and tears weak muscles because exercise
is seldom fit into the busy schedule. One has lower back pain and ultimately a slipped disk, but fails to tighten the
tummy or relax tight back muscles. The list is endless.
Ultimately, dealing with pain must be resolved in the same way that one deals with all other aspects of being alive.
Take responsibility for your own life, adjust to the reality of those things you cannot change, and maintain perspective.
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written Sep 8, 2006
On Aug-17 my wife and I lost our only chil. When he was travelling he got hit by a train and died right
there, with no pain or suffering, as the doctors say. Could you please help me get back in time, so I could
warn my son of the danger and have him survive? If my life is required instead of his, to retain the
balance of births and deaths, needless to say I would surely do that, as long as I know that the sequence of
events changes and my kid stays alive. Please do that for me and my wife, the whole world is now empty
without him, only grief and sorrow around and I don't know how to carry on. Also, could you please tell
me if there was any sense in his dying that young? What happened at deeper planes of reality that made
our kid leave us so early?
At the base of the many horrors and inequities and sorrows that life throws at us is spiritual growth, as this is the point of incarnated life. In a life lived without personal pain or anguish there is little incentive to growth. If everyone were born beautiful, lived a life without disease, never wanted for any physical comfort, and did not encounter adversity or
struggle, what reason would there be to develop a strong compassion for others? Compassion, empathy for what others
are going through, is love, and on a spiritual level is learned only by having experienced pain and anguish oneself. The
young soul, immature, may experience what by instinct the life form experiences when a member of the species is in
terror or pain. This is biological, an evolutionary result, to help the flock or herd realize danger and flee to safety. A rabbit, sensing another had been captured by a coyote, is terrified when it hears the squeals of panic and pain from its
fellow rabbit, but this does not equate to empathy. Most certainly, the rabbit would not offer itself for another! This
gesture is only found in highly evolved souls, those who have long ago chosen the Service-to-Other path.
In that the young soul remembers, and carries forward any memory of pain or anguish from prior lives, it begins to
relate on more than an instinctive level to what it sees about it, in the pain and anguish in others. Unlike the rabbits, who flee in terror when one of their fellows becomes prey, the human with an incarnated soul contemplates the
outcome. If inclined toward Service-to-Other, they can see that a circumstance is leading to pain for another, and step
in to try to change the outcome. This may mean a loss of some kind, such as taking time out from other tasks, or
spending some money intended for the self, or even putting the self at risk, but the outcome, for another, is changed.
These steps may be small, such as stopping the car to inquire after the welfare of someone at the side of the road, or
large, such as rushing into a burning building to break open a door trapping others inside. In the latter, the human is
certainly offering themselves so that others may survive, putting themselves at risk, a potential sacrifice of self. This type of gesture, the unhesitating step to sacrifice all to help others, always indicates a highly evolved soul, strongly in the Service-to-Other. Would the rabbit rush into a burning building, to prevent the pain and panic in its fellows?
Ultimately, after many thousands of incarnated lifetimes, or perhaps even millions of such lifetimes, the soul has
evolved to be intensely loving, and this is not a shallow matter. In these lifetimes, there are times when the soul was
incarnated into crippled or diseased bodies, or trapped in a live of suffering and anguish, no escape possible, such as
slavery or life in a land suffering a drought where there is never enough to eat, for all. There are times of horror and
terror, when the volcano is about to explode or the incarnation is in a woman or a man of small frame, or a child, and
a sadist has full control of their life and enjoying the pain and hopelessness he can inflict. There are also times when
the incarnation affords strength, the body strong with strength respected by others, the circumstances of birth affording funds and influence, the IQ high so that meeting life's adversity is a game rather than a sorrow. If the point of an
incarnation full of pain and anguish is to experience what others might be going through, the point of an incarnation
that affords strength is to give the soul an opportunity to rescue others, to put oneself at risk. At first, the young soul stands idly by, watching others suffer, but feels discomfited by this as it remembers when it suffered, in past lives.
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for the rescuer! This is the answer, to help others, as if this is done more often, overall grief is lessened! Where this intellectual discussion of the reasons for pain and anguish are hardly a comfort to the sufferer, it does point to an out.
The parent, losing a child, will often be more intensely empathetic to other families in similar circumstances, and be a