into the pain

What hurts?  Is it in your body?  A certain part, or the whole thing?  Your emotions?  Your racing mind?  What is hurting in you?

Go there.  Feel it.  See what the pain is trying to teach you.  Every single time we feel pain, it is a gift from our body (or mind or emotions); pain is a lesson to help us learn how to solve the problem, because it pinpoints where the disfunction is taking place.

Please note, I say that pain itself is a gift, and not the object, action, or activity causing the pain.  If we believe that "such and such a person or situation" is causing you discomfort in our life, we can choose to focus on precisely what that discomfort feels like rather than on what the outside problem is.  Often when we do that, we find that there is some simple change that we can make ourselves that will allow the pain to stop entirely.

Sometimes it is a painful action that is required to bring about feeling good: it could be ceasing to do certain activities that store tension in the body, quitting a job, or changing a communication pattern in a relationship.  Once done, though, our bodies and hearts and minds can come to equilibrium and we can begin to heal and feel good again.

Listen to your pain.  See what it has to tell you.