The Bible on Trial

Pain Management~ The most simple explanation of pain is that it hurts. This seems obvious and self evident, especially if you have lived long enough to have experienced pain in it's various forms. There are four primary categories of pain (one is not necessarily more prevaient than the other) three of which are physical, mental, and emotional pain. They all crossover with each other; physical pain can over time become emotional. Mental stress can generate actual negative physical responses. Emotional pain can actually degrade mental acuity and activity.  Pain management can be accomplished in two ways, from within, from without, or a combination of both. Pain management is the key to physical healing after a severe accident, a heart attack, or a major cancer fight. I know this from personal experience. in many cases this requires medication that will  reduce the pain to a level where you are not concentrating on the pain, and can concentrate on the healing. All pain management requires expert help in mitigating the pain in just the right way, so that the method of management does not overpower either the physical, mental or emotional responses in a negative way. Relying on one option to the exclusion of others can often lead to addiction. Today the most common addiction is to drugs that are  inappropriate because of cause, amount, or being self-administered.  We all long to be healed from our pain, and we must be very careful in choosing the quality of 'expert' we use to affect the healing. The fourth area in which we can have pain is in the Spiritual realm. Not being able to find the answers that you seek in understanding who you are in relationship to God, or worse, believeing that you know that answer to the exclusion of and unseen truth, can be very stressful. How to find answers to this is why Spirit of Truth Ministry exists.