Pain is an unpleasant tactile sensation. When in pain, we have a tendency to fight it back, to forget it, to avoid it, and to brood over it. In the process, we accentuate the pain.

We dread pain like dreading a monster. But the pain seems to love feasting on us, reducing us to the helpless creatures in its clutches.

What generates pain? Is it an extreme pressure or an injury to the nerve endings which make the pain felt? Is it a mechanism to get alert, thus avoiding a fatal injury before it takes place?

Yes and no! Some people are very apprehensive of pain even when there is no physically fatal danger involved, whereas others do not care much about it. This maybe because of various reasons, some biological but mostly mental—the sensitivities, the dread, the avoidance, the rejection, the insensitivity, and the habit! If the pain was only an objective biological mechanism such subjective reactions would not have been present.

Pain is more a mental reaction to a biological stimulation. The mind compares the two states—pain and no pain; and rejects the pain. This mental comparison and rejection is the basic etiology of pain which yields to all sorts of aches and pains.

The mind itself, which is nothing but the emotional residue of the past, generates and feels the pain. If the mind stops, the pain stops.

Accepting the perception of pain with total awareness ends the pain.

The 'Sex for Enlightenment Workshop', along with its projected target, also works as a spontaneous treatment and cure for overcoming alienation.

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