“Pain is just weakness leaving the body.”
- Ken Clement, Aylmer Florida Fitness - Award Winning Trainer
Last week I was in the locker room after my workout and I heard Ken say this in the hallway. I was struck by how profound this statement is. It lingered and rolled around in my head. I pondered the instances where this would apply in my life. Pain comes in many forms: physical, emotional and psychological. Ken’s statement implies that pain is part of the healing process.
There are times when pain is the result of injury. I am not talking about that type of pain or judging the pain any of us can experience. We’ve all heard the good pain vs. bad pain debate where our bodies are concerned. When physical pain is the result of working out or working through an old injury (as is my personal case) we can acknowledge that part of that pain is the body’s resistance to change. The more you ask it to change, the stronger you become, the less pain there is. One of my therapists believes that pain results in the body when movement stops. This is true for our emotions too. We can train ourselves to overcome our emotional weaknesses. I think the hardest ones to overcome may be the psychological ones as they can be sneaky and harder to acknowledge. In any case the weakness is on the inside. If we fear the pain, we will feed it. But if we invite change or movement, even a little bit, every day, we will build our strength.
Friday night when we listened to our bed tracks, I cried. Pain is a messenger. Sometimes the tears allow us to carry it out. When pain comes into your life, I invite you to examine what it is there to teach you. Be strong one baby step at a time!
Namaste!
Bianca
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- Ken Clement, Aylmer Florida Fitness - Award Winning Trainer
Last week I was in the locker room after my workout and I heard Ken say this in the hallway. I was struck by how profound this statement is. It lingered and rolled around in my head. I pondered the instances where this would apply in my life. Pain comes in many forms: physical, emotional and psychological. Ken’s statement implies that pain is part of the healing process.
There are times when pain is the result of injury. I am not talking about that type of pain or judging the pain any of us can experience. We’ve all heard the good pain vs. bad pain debate where our bodies are concerned. When physical pain is the result of working out or working through an old injury (as is my personal case) we can acknowledge that part of that pain is the body’s resistance to change. The more you ask it to change, the stronger you become, the less pain there is. One of my therapists believes that pain results in the body when movement stops. This is true for our emotions too. We can train ourselves to overcome our emotional weaknesses. I think the hardest ones to overcome may be the psychological ones as they can be sneaky and harder to acknowledge. In any case the weakness is on the inside. If we fear the pain, we will feed it. But if we invite change or movement, even a little bit, every day, we will build our strength.
Friday night when we listened to our bed tracks, I cried. Pain is a messenger. Sometimes the tears allow us to carry it out. When pain comes into your life, I invite you to examine what it is there to teach you. Be strong one baby step at a time!
Namaste!
Bianca
This personal blog was written by Bianca Pittoors. You may “share” it in its entirety. I respectfully request that you respect it as the intellectual property that it is. Thank you!
Follow us on blogger, on the Bianca Basso Group on Facebook, or visit our site for more information.