Where is pain coming from? Did we “sin” – self-inflicted nonsense, or do we live in an illusion that causes us to experience pain?
We can experience pain on different levels such as mentally, physically, emotionally, and even spiritually. How is this pain created?
We know and understand that our bodies are the temple of the living God dwelling within us. We do whatever we can to keep this body clean, healthy, and out of pain as much as we can. Yet, there is no one in this world who would not have pain in one part of the body or another. It is part of life to be somehow in pain. Why is that?
Let us focus for a moment on Jesus’ Crucifixion. Was Jesus really in pain, or did he rise above body consciousness to overcome the pain a mortal person would have felt?
It is my guess that he indeed knew what he was going through, and prepared himself for this event to overcome his personality/mortal being. There is no pain in surrendering through death when we deny the human self, and unite with God in Oneness.
Charles Fillmore (The Revealing Word) clarifies that “the crucifixion is a process of crossing out in consciousness of errors that have become fixed states of mind; the surrender or death of the whole personality in order that the Christ Mind may be expressed in all its fullness.”
When the innermost chamber of the heart is emptied of negativity, of personality, of self-inflicted nonsense, and the thoughts are directed only to God within without the five senses interfering, there is no pain in dying of self in the process of transformation to Oneness.
When my dear aunt died several years ago, she took one long breath, and was instantly and peacefully transformed in a blinking of an eye without pain and further suffering. There are other cases of people prolonging their death in pain ans suffering. Going peacefully and pain-free is the way to go – we pray for each and every one whosoever is born to leave this earth in a peaceful and painful way.
We all are prone to making mistakes, regardless of how much we watch out to avoid them. This is part of life as a soul being in a mortal physical body. Misjudging, misunderstanding, not trusting, being unduly fearful – all self-inflicted nonsense that separates us from our Oneness with God, and causes pain. Separation from God may be expressed in “anguish.”
The Course in Miracles proclaims: “If sin is real, salvation must be a pain. Pain is the cost of sin, and suffering can never be escaped, if sin is real. [Then] Salvation must be feared, for it will kill, but slowly, taking everything away before it grants the welcome boon of death to victims who are little more than bones before salvation is appeased. Its wrath is boundless, merciless, but wholly just.”
We all know and understand that it is not so, and that God does not acknowledge sin as it was believed throughout the Old Testament. It is only in our minds that we miss the mark. So what is pain then that is sometimes inevitable to encounter in body, mind, spirit, emotions, and soul? Pain is but a sign that we must have misunderstood ourselves, and did not listen to our bodies whatever the bodies need, as well as ignoring the small Voice within that knows better to restore our good health to avoid possible pain as God directs. For we are souls, part of the living God energy and life that dwells within us.
Our thoughts, feelings, and emotions contribute a great deal to pain in the body, and we often try to patch up pain with a pill, rather than finding the cause of it. Yet experiencing pain can also be an overcoming karmic action from perhaps so many life times ago, or pain can be a learning lesson never hopefully to be repeated again.
The Course of Miracles further states that we must not “Fear the Will of God. But turn to it in confidence that it will set you free from all consequences of sin has wrought in feverish imagination.”
For this insight, we give thanks, and know that there is no sin, and nothing to fear, for God is in charge, if we trust Him, and let Him do His works through us. We still may experience pain from time to time, but know that this pain will come to pass with God’s guidance and direction. The Remedy? Daily Meditation to connect with the God-Force/Life within who is the greatest Healer of all times.
~a dedicated prayer chaplain ©
