Life is only possible because of change. Or impermanence.
Something that is the same is what we tell ourselves. The story.
Do you hear yourself saying: it’s the same.
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Even this changes. Because each time you hear it, you have changed.
Pay close attention to your breath. The movement of your body. Change.
Pay attention to sounds. Change.
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Being open to this reality is important to overcome pain and suffering. More suffering comes from the story that it is the same. It can never be the same because nothing is the same.
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Impermanence.
Change is what makes life exist.
See if you can notice change as you go about your day. Try not to think of change as good or bad, but just part of how life works.
For example, blaming a small joint in the neck for a person’s woes.
Instead of seeing them as a thinking, feeling human being with hopes, dreams, strengths, and difficulties.
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When the pain is reduced in such a way, often the person is heading down the wrong route—not their fault.
Expectations are in the wrong place as they think that some treatment to that small part of their body will solve the pain problem. Great if it does. Often is doesn’t.
It means your story matters. Your lived experience is what we work with, together. To shape a positive future.
It means we think about any investigations and scientific knowledge and bring them in to explain your lived experience. That goes for tests that show nothing in particular, a common finding. But now what? You still suffer. Why? And what can you do?
Pain is a lived experience of the person in a world. Considering anything less to explain the experience misunderstands the reality.
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Ideas of training the brain follow from the reductionist and dualist viewpoint. Both are limited and out of step with modern models—enactivism and predictive processing.