Steelworker -

Perhaps it would have had more appeal if confined to one of his bullet points: "although pain may be inevitable, suffering is optional."

That said, I understand from your other post that you are the loving father of a young woman in terrible pain and that you didn't find this helpful. And I can appreciaite that. And if I had been fighting for years for one of my own kids, that might have been my first take as well.

But sometimes, from the patient's perspective, the idea of dropping even just a little bit of resistance and exploring the aspects and nuances of the pain - sometimes in a part of the body where it is at it's feintest and therefore most bearable - can be very useful in being less afflicted by the thing as a whole. That's what Break Through Pain and its accompanying CD is all about. Sorry if that point was not made clear when expressed in terms of "suffering equals pain times resistance." Perhaps I should have started with something more narrowly tailored and a bit less, shall we say, comprehensive in its scope.

Mile