"Pain is just weakness leaving the body."
What is pain? Is pain a just a feeling? Is it an emotion? It is this "something" that is a cause of effect of certain physical activity or emotional activity? Why does pain cause the body hurt? Why can't it cause the body strength...or does it?
According to thefreedictionary.com, pain is a noun that causes "unpleasant sensation occurring in varying degrees of severity as a consequence of injury, disease, or emotional disorder." So in other words, pain is a sensation. I find this definition hard to believe because anyone can feel pain whether they have an injury, disease, or an emotional disorder or not. I don't need to be sick and dying or laying up in a hospital bed in order to feel pain.
Pain to my knowledge is a cause and effect feeling of both physical and emotional activity. After a hard work out an athlete is going to feel the pain and tiredness of what practice does to his or her muscles. After a terrible break up the young girl is going to feel the pain that something very important in her life has just been ripped away. After the death of a loved one, the family is going to feel the pain of losing someone so close to them. It is outside sources that cause these feeling to arise within the human body, and the effect of it all is pain itself.
Pain is just weakness leaving the body... I find this statement to be a little contradictory. If pain is just weakness leaving the body then shouldn't football players, gymnast, wrestler, or what have you, be out of pain for the rest of their life? Or do they still have a lot of weakness stored up inside of them? I would think that trained professionals would be done with having the sensation of pain after every workout. They are experts at it, so shouldn't they not be weak anymore? However, this statement holds true because you cannot get rid of weakness without being in pain.
At the same time I think this statement should read something like, "Pain is just improvement building in the body." That makes more sense doesn't it? Throughout our whole lives we are going to be weak. Whether it be when were young, middle aged or old. It's always going to be present. No amount of pain is going to vanish weakness from our bodies. But if pain is the result of improving our bodies, well then we can all use a little bit of pain if you catch my drift. Emotional pain allows us to heal in a different way and allows us to see how to behave, how to be strong, and how to deal with different situations at hand. It allows our bodies to improve our relationships so that we can have the best lives we possibly can. Physical pain improves our bodies so that we can stay physically fit and to be able to perform our best when it comes to the sports we play or the various rolls that we have to take on throughout our life.
Pain is just improvement building in the body.
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ReplyDeleteHere's a thought: Pain is just a warning that something isn't how its supposed to be.
ReplyDeleteIf pain is a warning that something isn't how its supposed to be, then why do you experience pain after a good work out? Are you working out incorrectly or are you muscles not the way that are supposed to be? Or how about when a family experiences a loved one dying. They can't help that. Death is going to occur in all of our lives anyway.
ReplyDeleteWhy do you think its harder to run for a while after a good workout? Because muscles can't function past a certain point. Theres tearing and other stuff that occurs during a workout. The tearing is necessary yes, but it doesn't change the fact that healing needs to occur before they can operate again. The pain is a warning to slow down and take it easy so the healing can occur. Ever hear of overtraining? As for a death in the family obviously there is a gap emotionally that usually isn't there. aka something is wrong and healing needs to occur
ReplyDeleteSir/ Madam Anonymous...muscles are going to tear and repair themselves whether you overwork them or not. I think everyone has heard of over training. But if you are going to base this off of anatomy, please reread your text because the muscle fibers and the actin and myosin heads will snap during contractions which causes muscles to tear and to rebuild allowing them to become stronger. Nevertheless that process will continue to always occur. A person does not need to overtrain for that to occur, therefore your little philosophy about pain being a warning...ya you can toss that out the window.
ReplyDeleteIndigo, great blog. You take interesting view points on different issues. :)