A while ago I posted in a Buddhism group on Facebook asking how people deal with physical pain. A member of the group responded to my question saying that they look after their pain like a baby (I paraphrase because I can no longer find the original post). I saw a similar post yesterday saying that people should look after their fear, comfort it and take care of it.
I have never thought of this before. I always seem to think of any physical pain or fearful thoughts as something evil, something that is an enemy, something to hate. I've never thought of it as something that needs to be nurtured or taken care of. But it isn't an alien being, is it? It's a part of us, and any part of ourselves should be treated with kindness, not with contempt. If we can take a different attitude to our fears and our pain, maybe we will cultivate more compassion for ourselves, and suffer less.
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