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But today we talk about something we all experience,

pain and how pain is distinct from suffering.

There is a difference between pain and suffering.

So pain is a physiological response to any injury.

If you didn't experience pain,

then your limbs would fall off,

which is what happens when people have severe neuropathy or numbness

due to a neurological disease, they can't experience pain.

It's a very dangerous situation.

Pain tells you that something is wrong and you should know what that is even by asking,

yes, what is the cause of this pain?

Is it due to stress? Is it due to over exertion is the due to lack of sleep is it due to

inflammation is it due to wrong diet is it due to physical injury and then you once you know the cause of the pain then you address it.

But remember the pain is an experience that is protective that is meant to heal you.

All pain is associated with acute inflammation.

And acute inflammation is protective.

If you fall down and you get a bruise, then that's a protective response.

Otherwise you'd bleed to death if you didn't have inflammation.

When you encounter an infection such as a pneumococcus, then your body has an immune response which is also an inflammatory response which

helps the healing by making antibodies and rushing inflammatory markers and

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