Creating Beauty From a Life of Chronic Pain

When I sit down to write these blogs each week, my creative self often takes me to surprising places. I’ve discovered last week’s theme of finding beauty is the beginning of a series of three blogs on beauty. It certainly surprised me to find two more blogs lurking in my mind. The more I reflected on the role of this particular quality in my own life, I realized it has many ramifications. For many of us who live with daily pain, creating beauty and participating in something beautiful has been a welcoming open door into a dark room and a way out of the pain. Naturally, when you create a beautiful photo or picture you are also viewing it. When you paint a project you enjoy, whether it be a fence or a painting, it brings you pleasure. Pleasure creates endorphins along with chocolate, berries, chili peppers, sex, exercise and massage to name only a few of the stimulants. Meditation also releases these pleasing endorphins. Wow. Just to get off subject for a moment but what a thought to imagine a life filled with those things. I guess we need to find a few of them that are possible and go for it. Why not? Just a brief word on endorphins which are neurotransmitters produced by the brain to transmit signals to the nervous system. They can be found in the pituitary and in other parts of the nervous system and thus far, twenty types have been isolated in humans. They behave somewhat like morphine and opiates to alleviate pain and to basically, protect us. They are responsible for...
Source: Life with Chronic Pain - Category: Other Conditions Authors: Tags: Pain Management creating beauty endorphins Source Type: blogs