Subtracting Insult from Injury: A Buddheo-Christian Art of Transmuting Pain

About this book

When a bear, eagle, whale, elephant, camel, and other creatures experience pain, they react sanely.Instead of getting hysterical, they find a safe, calm place to heal and be gently settled, which fosters their natural restorative, pain-relieving endorphins and potent immune stimulators to be released into their bloodstreams. Without a pharmacy, medical clinic, hospital, surgeon, or psychotherapist, they instinctively lay still and start to heal.Humans, on the other hand, add to their anguish by entering a fight, fright, or flight mode, which should only be reserved for life-or-death moments. We spook ourselves and compound the problem at hand by thinking things such Crap always happens to me. God must hate me.I bet this pain in my armpit is cancer.These pains will never go away. Im just a loser.If they force me into less pain meds, I cant make it.Break free from those thoughts and discover an endorphin paradise with the insights in this pain-relieving guide.Dr. Alan Cooper explores why humanity has lost its natural pain-abating ability and how trusting our gutsliterallycan help us overcome our fears, pains, and personal traumas to heal ourselves.