The grace of pain
>>>.....now, how do I embrace the pain?<<<
By insight and training. There are people who scream, when they see a spot of blood on their skin. There are people who scream, when they feel a signal, saying that there is something they have to take care of. What is pain else than a signal.
Most of us cannot see pain as an abstract signal, but it is well possible. Why shouldn't I love a wound, even if it hurts. It is telling the small child not to touch the oven, it is telling the adult not to drive too fast ..... and all those other things that hurt, when the consequences fall back on us. Pain is a grace. How could we live without all those signals, telling us that it is time to stop? Aching feet, sneezing, burning eyes, etc, etc. Every pain only has the aim to tell us, that we did something that should be taken care of, or that we have done something un-clever.
Let's train to look at the pain, ask what it wants to tell us and than feel thankful.