Thank you @ceemo! very informative. Physical pain is well ... painful. You can try to ignore it and bury is deeper into the tissue, you can make it a part of your story (a part of your character), you can even use it to get attention and care you crave. Or you can acknowledge it and "befriend" it, see what this pain is a reaction to, see what the body is trying to communicate to you though the pain (instead of pushing it away as an enemy). But apart from physical pain, emotional pain is even more common. In many cases emotional pain in self-inflicted. By holding on to what we did wrong, what others did wrong and so on we are prolonging emotional pain, sometimes for years or even a lifetime. A little bit of self-compasion goes a long way!