Hi Sarah
I have read your paper - the matter of possible selves and pain touched me
and is relevant to where I am. I will spend some time in visualisation and
meditation and report back! Thank you. For sending this to us.
On 22/2/07 2:51 AM, "Sarah Fletcher" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Dear Alan and All,
>
> I have been thinking about your Child of Reason and I am curious to understand
> more about 'I
> cannot grow up' Please could you unfold its meaning or is it so embedded in
> the interconnected
> whole/hole of your writing that to do so would be more or less a travesty?
> I'll understand if it is.
>
> I have also been reflecting on your perspectives about pain - especially as
> pain seems to be inter-
> linked with release maybe because a pain receptor centre in the brain is close
> to a 'pleasure' one.
> I wonder how much research there has been into how and why some people seem
> (and this is SO
> destructive) to relish inflicting pain on others e.g. there certainly seems to
> be a pain-thrill in rape?
>
> Is it a coincidence that so many artists (Van Gough is one in mind) suffer so
> deeply for their art -
> is art offering a conduit for the expression, release of physical pain
> experienced inside the brain?
> I think we still know so little about about the physical-emotional
> interconnectness of chronic pain
> and although I cannot find it on line now there was recent article on CNN
> about how bullying and
> victimisation is physically received in the brain as if a sharp knife has been
> inserted into a wound.
> I think we can 'see' pain - if we couldn't we wouldn't be able to co-exist in
> societal communities.
> We 'see' its effects and if we go back to Susie's feel-know postings we can
> tune in to 'know' it too.
>
> I have tried to use my experience of pain to assist others to overcome it in
> work as an educator -
> in my teaching in schools I was motivated by doing all I could to help kids
> enjoy their childhood.
> (Many of the kids I worked with were rejected at home and the only 'love' they
> felt was in school).
> Later, in my academic papers and working as a tutor for novice teachers I drew
> on my experience
> of pain to work with it, inside it, alongside it. I attach a published paper
> where I've explained this.
>
> Warm regards,
>
> Sarah
>
> PS Hope you find this flyer interesting too - some excellent lectures on pain
> via this circuit in Bath
> PPS Thanks, Alan and Susie for copying me into correspondence around and
> beyond this BERA list,
>
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