I always say that pain is information, that it is not punishment.
All the body's systems and processes - your nerves, your emotions - take instruction from what is going on with your breath.
We see in the electroencephalogram a concomitant phenomenon of the continuous nerve processes which take place in the brain, exactly as the electrocardiogram represents a concomitant phenomenon of the contractions of the individual segments of the heart.
Everyone is down on pain, because they forget something important about it: Pain is for the living. Only the dead don't feel it.
Pain is part of the body's magic. It is the way the body transmits a sign to the brain that something is wrong.
Pain is the body's way of telling the brain it's in trouble. Similarly, confusion is the brain's way of telling the body, 'All right, buddy, drop that book.
Pain is just another form of information.
Pictures, propagated by motion along the fibers of the optic nerves in the brain, are the cause of vision.
