AWC Blog

Pain is Not Something to Defeat

Ice cube in hand.

Submitted by Mike Williams, Certified Rolfer & Certified Hakomi Practitioner,

“I teach people how to leverage the information that’s available in their bodies to skillfully accelerate their personal growth & development.”

-Mike Williams

Mike shares with us his insights on pain:

Pain sucks so why not just try to get rid of it? As adults we have a lot of personal history, and some very well-trodden paths for dealing with the challenges we face. Those paths create the often-subconscious “stories” of our lives — the “why?” behind what we do — and they usually create predictable (and often narrow) sets of outcomes. That’s why we use them a lot — they’re reliable! But after being used over and over, maybe for decades, they can actually create the pain we experience.

Read more, and Learn about Mike here:

https://www.somamike.com/blog2/pain-is-not-something-to-defeat