pain processing Quotes

Pain that is not transformed is transmitted.

Go with the pain, let it take you. Open your palms and your body to the pain. It comes in waves like the tide and you must be open as a vessel lying on the beach, letting it fill you up and then, retreating, leaving you empty and clear.

I think it's really cool to embrace the pain of something that may have hurt you and be able to express it through music.

When you deal with something like compassion for physical pain, which we know is very, very old in evolution - we can find evidence for it in nonhuman species - the brain processes it at a faster speed. Compassion for mental pain took many seconds longer.

The only thing that gets me through any type of pain, emotional or physical, is to make it worthwhile by putting it into my work.

Pain is a message, and you can choose to ignore that message.

There's no better way to process pain than to write.

All hurt is brain hurt.

What marks the artist is his power to shape the material of pain we all have.

That's what's great about the Batman universe. When you explore Gotham, when you explore the villains, all of them point to this one character. This iconic American symbol for how we deal with pain and loss and how we move forward after it.

The whole purpose of letting pain be pain is this: to let go of pain. By entering into it, we see that we are strong enough and capable enough to move through it. We find out that it ultimately has a gift for us.

To fashion an inner story of our pain carries us into the heart of it, which is where rebirth inevitably occurs.

Whenever you feel a negative emotion be alone in a room and just sit down with it and feel. Don't judge it, criticize it, intellectualize it, explain it away. Allow yourself to feel the pain. It's okay. Accompany it - breathe into it - and after a while, you'll feel the anger or fear or sadness lose it's urgency and power. Allow God to tenderly embrace you in your pain. And then, at the right time, you can let go.

All great spirituality is about what we do with our pain. If we do not transform our pain, we will transmit it to those around us.

Pain is filtered in a poem so that it becomes finally, in the end, pleasure.

I want hard stories, I demand them from myself. Hard stories are worth the difficulty. It seems to me the only way I have forgiven anything, understood anything, is through that process of opening up to my own terror and pain and reexamining it, re-creating it in the story, and making it something different, making it meaningful - even if the meaning is only in the act of the telling.

People process pain differently. My family, we were pretty humorous about things that went on.

I've always been drawn to the hard story, the trauma, because I think art can turn it around.

You can actually take your pain and processes it into some kind of form of art. So I mean, I've easily always been able to do that, but also I've always been able to give myself perspective - or, you know, older people always give you perspective.

Pain is just another form of information.

Maybe all pain in the world requires poetry.

Suffering needs time. It cannot survive in the now.

The pain itself is a product or a reflection of how I am interpreting whatever it is that is causing me pain.

Pain is an event ... Suffering, on the other hand, is the nightmare reliving of unscrutinized and unmetabolized pain.

The only way through pain…is to absorb, probe, understand exactly what it is and what it means. To close the door on pain is to miss the chance for growth.