Imagining the Creator Holding You Together So You Don’t Have to

<p>Christian Meditation is a quiet time for you to re-integrate and re-calibrate your mind with your body. And re-integrate and re-calibrate your mind and body with God‘s presence with you and in you. Remember the quote from the apostle Paul in Acts 17:28 – <em>In him you live and move and have your being</em>.</p><p><br></p><p><strong>If your podcast app is set to skip the silent sections, disable that in your podcast app for this podcast.</strong></p><p><br></p><p><a href="https://www.zoffness.com" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Rachel Zoffness</a><strong> (<em>The Pain Management Workbook</em>)</strong></p><p><em>It’s easy to believe that pain is exclusively located in the body, in the place that hurts. But despite the fact that we experience pain in our bodies, pain is actually constructed by the brain.</em></p><p><br></p><p><em>[A good example] of the brain’s role in pain comes from a medical phenomenon known as phantom limb pain. This condition arises when an accident survivor loses a limb, then continues to feel terrible pain in the missing limb even after it’s gone.</em></p><p><br></p><p><em>[Pain happens when] information from [your body’s] sensory receptors travels up your spinal cord to your brain. Your brain then interprets these signals and decides how to respond…</em></p><p><br></p><p><em>[But] your brain [is what] makes pain.</em></p><p><br></p><p><em>Put another way, pain is not an accurate indicator of tissue damage. Pain is an interpretation, your brain’s best guesstimate based on all available information.</em></p><p><br></p><p><em>[But] the pain system, like most systems, is imperfect. Sometimes there are glitches.&nbsp;</em></p><p><br></p><p><em>…Pain is not an accurate indicator of tissue damage. You can experience terrible pain in the complete absence of bodily harm… That is: just because something hurts does not necessarily mean your body is in danger of harm. “Hurt” and “harm” are not the same.</em></p><p><br></p><p><em>This exemplifies an important, and counterintuitive, point