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By Steven Paglierani
www.theemergencesite.com
Is Every Ache and Pain a Symptom?

Someone recently wrote and asked me, “Is every discomfort, ache, irritation, bruise, and distraction a symptom? For instance, I will often attend to a painful hip only to have my wife point out that I should explore the other one, as that is likely where the wound is. It seems, attending to symptoms is like have an itchy nose and licking your lips to stop the itch. This never quite gets it.”

So is every discomfort, irritation, bruise, painful feeling, and distraction a symptom? Yes. However, in order to understand what this means, you need to know the fractal for symptoms. In other words, what is the “recognizable visual pattern of relationships” we call a “symptom?”

Symptoms are what happen to us when our visual access to a need gets blocked. In other words, “blocked needs cause symptoms.” Why? Because you cannot chose to attend to what you cannot visually see. At least, not consciously. Thus, even when we manage to avoid our symptoms (such as when we medically reduce them to invisibility), we more miss the bullet by sheer luck than become bullet proof. In other words, the war has not ended. And we are still being shot at. We have simply survived another near miss and may take a bullet at any moment.

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By Steven Paglierani
www.theemergencesite.com
Is Every Ache and Pain a Symptom?

Someone recently wrote and asked me, “Is every discomfort, ache, irritation, bruise, and distraction a symptom? For instance, I will often attend to a painful hip only to have my wife point out that I should explore the other one, as that is likely where the wound is. It seems, attending to symptoms is like have an itchy nose and licking your lips to stop the itch. This never quite gets it.”

So is every discomfort, irritation, bruise, painful feeling, and distraction a symptom? Yes. However, in order to understand what this means, you need to know the fractal for symptoms. In other words, what is the “recognizable visual pattern of relationships” we call a “symptom?”

Symptoms are what happen to us when our visual access to a need gets blocked. In other words, “blocked needs cause symptoms.” Why? Because you cannot chose to attend to what you cannot visually see. At least, not consciously. Thus, even when we manage to avoid our symptoms (such as when we medically reduce them to invisibility), we more miss the bullet by sheer luck than become bullet proof. In other words, the war has not ended. And we are still being shot at. We have simply survived another near miss and may take a bullet at any moment.

Continue reading “Is Every Ache and Pain a Symptom?”

Original post by nospam@example.com (Wit`Alis)