Mark Your Pain

Some pain occurs in your life so that you never have to feel them again

Many times we feel excruciating emotional pain and become riddled with them for so long we wish we never had to feel them again.

The truth is, you never have to feel most of them again. Because some painful emotions or scenarios come to teach you a lesson whereby they never replay themselves if you learned them.

Those kinds of emotional pain can be anxiety. Intense anxiety that may have left you mentally saddled for days/weeks/months and depressive bouts. Each episode of these kinds of pains comes with a lesson you must be willing to learn, maybe not necessarily apply instantly.

When you can devise means to manage these pains well, eventually snapping out of it, it becomes glaring what their purposes were. Unlike if you were still stuck in the rut — or couldn’t manage to navigate through the several bouts.

Managing anxiety or relative painful emotion includes

• Talking about it with someone you trust
• Soliloquizing about how you feel
• Staying calm about it particularly when acting would only exacerbate things
• Journaling or writing down how you feel, identifying and naming the triggers to learn what to avoid
• Praying about it, that is, spiritually relaying your feelings for a sense of relief

When you feel this type of pain and can manage them efficiently, your body and spirit mark it for next time. Like an immunity, it recognizes the signals of it attempting to return and blocks it. By letting you navigate your way through — almost feeling like you didn’t experience it in the first place.

So, sometimes, all it takes is to let the pain flow, work its “ugly magic” and tick it off the list.

You can do it!