Suggestions on FM

I love listening to music, a lot. I listen to the radio, I prefer it to television, which I haven't had for a few years now. 
Sometimes I listen intently, sometimes I just let it keep me company while I'm doing something else.

But a few days ago, an advertisement I heard on the radio caught my attention and I couldn't help but write it down. 
It said: pain is an obstacle to your sporting activity.

Let's just say that after that sentence, I didn't care whether it was promoting a painkiller or a competitive training program with a personal trainer. 
Because that's not the point.
I was amazed at how our society imposes (or tries to impose) standards that don't make sense, structuring a distorted image with certain narratives.

What does it mean that pain is an obstacle?
Pain is part of us, it's part of life, it's a fundamental element for survival.

For example, if we didn't have the perception of pain, we would burn ourselves with fire because we wouldn't feel the limit on our skin, we would damage our muscles climbing a rocky area without proper protection, we wouldn't take care of a wound. 
Physical pain (but also emotional pain) is the track that gives us the boundaries within which to stay.
Many, however, consider it an annoying nuisance that prevents us from being or doing what we are or want to be or do.

But are we sure that what we think we are is what we really are?
Pain makes us understand that perhaps what we imagine ourselves to be is not the right path.
We suffer when we want to imagine ourselves different from how we really are, and reality, concreteness, the here and now, are the body.

So what should we do when we feel pain?
Should we welcome it with a smile and just say “thank you, pain”?
Not at all. 
No one likes to suffer. And feeling something we haven't felt before frightens us, we are scared and don't know how to deal with it. We are obsessed with not feeling pain because it demands our attention and throws us into crisis.
Society would tell us to “turn it off, fight it, it's the enemy.”

Yes, okay, but if there were an effective and definitive fight against pain, then of course, let's all do it! 

What I have learned in years of teaching and caring for people who come to me is that the issue cannot be resolved definitively from the outside, but only if we pay the right attention to the pain we have and learn what we need to manage it independently. Through the work we can do on our bodies, we can learn to manage it by releasing it through the energy we already possess.

Pain tells us that it is time to take care of ourselves, to understand what is happening to us. 

To return to advertising, and to paraphrase an old slogan, “take good care of yourselves, everyone!”