top of page
Search
Writer's picturetofostotisgnoseos

Pain! Catalyst for human transformation and spiritual development!

The moment arrives when life confronts us with the darkness hidden within us! It's the time when light falls upon it, and the pain becomes deep, dense, like the smoke of a fire... that takes your breath away and clouds your eyes. And the pain cuts you in half... and becomes unstoppable tears that, to prevent them from drowning your heart, flow from your eyes!


Photo by freepik.com


pain:

  • Intense unpleasant *feeling, triggered at a point, in an area, or in an organ of the body...

  • Deep mental sorrow, distress, grief

  • Great agonizing **sadness

*feeling:

  • Impression created in consciousness (see article, "Why do we feel that life is unfair to us?") by stimuli to sensory organs or other parts of the body.

  • Impression created by the stimulation of a sensory organ and the subsequent change in the brain's cortex: the ~ of hunger

  • Consciousness or internal perception that shapes an individual, especially through comparative processing of stimuli ~ of superiority/inferiority/responsibility (e.g., inferiority complex)

  • Mental state, emotion created by external stimuli: the presence of the minister at the event created a deep ~ of satisfaction

  • Knowledge and sensitivity regarding...

  • General term for emotions, instincts, tendencies...

**sadness:

  • Unpleasant emotional state, usually due to something bad or generally unpleasant

  • Unpleasant mental state

  • Worry, gloominess

Talking about mental pain, it is essential to understand that whether we decide to collaborate with it or not, mental pain is an exceptional tool that helps us discover where exactly we are on the journey of life! This intensely unpleasant feeling that arises and is difficult to describe is a wonderful opportunity to come closer to our true selves, or at least in the search for it. Closer to the realization that pain, no matter how we experience it, is not something permanent! It is a sensation, an impression created in consciousness by situations we go through in our lives. However, the way we judge and experience these situations depends on the spiritual level at which we find ourselves! It is in our hands whether we will respond or react! If we decide to do the "work," clearing the old way of thinking! Or if we will continue to suffer...


In reality, there is no pain; there is only what I am experiencing at that moment, and the best way to free myself from it is to let it surface, to love it, to mourn it, to give it time! To give it love without negatively judging everything I feel!


So, pain is a mystery, but it is also a blessing! It is experienced differently by each one, just as we are all different... but everyone can transform through it, love and be loved. To face our fears and wounds, to remember who we truly are!



Text: Maria Langaditi

Text editing: Ada Kiriazi



Source:

- Λεξικό της Νέας Ελληνικής Γλώσας (με σχόλια για την σωστή χρήση των λέξεων

Γεωργίου Δ. Μπαμπινιώτη), ΚΕΝΤΡΟ ΛΕΞΙΚΟΛΟΓΙΑΣ Ε.Π.Ε. ΑΘΗΝΑ 2002

0 views0 comments

Comments


bottom of page