What my wisdom tooth taught me

There is a time in your life when something magical, beautiful, wonderful will happen and it is NOT the time when your first wisdom tooth decides to show up among his older friends. I repeat: IT IS NOT!

I never thought that my wisdom tooth will be full of wisdom - literally-, because I realized that every little thing, every element that comes into your life is a teacher. Let me show you why, while I guide you through this episode.

1. PAIN

The process starts with pain. And I don't mean little "take a Nurofen" pain, I mean pain that comes with back, belly, head, neck pain and fever. You will struggle, you will learn every pain killer in every store and their minimum administration time. You will become an expert in pain pills, trust me. Also, you will talk and cry to everybody around, putting your hope in the exterior world to take your pain away.

Buuut, in all this pain that lasts for days, you can chose. Whether you cry and cry and cry and kill your liver from the medicine oorr you take the next step. Is there another path? Yes, there is. There is always another way.

2. ACCEPT

Now, you close your eyes and turn your awareness from the exterior world, to the inside. Accept that you suffer, accept that this is what is happening, accept your tooth, your body that wants to express itself. You want to be accepted by others, but why not accept ourselves first? A tooth is part of who you are.

3. GET RID OF THE PAIN

This is the most important step. Pain killers won't work at some time and you will put cold water continuously.

In all that pain and suffering, in the middle of the night, I started to accept and while my head was starting to clear, I remembered a technique for managing the pain. Every pain. It is from David Hawkins's book, Healing and Recovery. Here are the steps.

• -Sit as relaxed as possible with your eyes closed.

• -Stop naming the pain, "pain". Nor a sensation. Don't call it at all.

• -INVITE THE PAIN to come in your body. Say "I want more of this, I like this sensation, I make room for you. You can even come in my arms."

• It is paradoxal, but this helps you not the see that sensation as your enemy. Every pain is caused by opposition to it, to change. So, Hawkins thought that if you remove the opposition, the pain dissapears.

4. LOVE

After about 30 minutes of letting go and inviting the pain, it disappeared completely. I opened my eyes and I realized that I love my body, I love that it expresses freely. My tooth wants to get out from his shell? Sure! My eyes want to transform themselves in a waterfall? Deffinetly!

I had this thoughts after the pain remover technique. Before, there was no chance for me to think clearly or calm down.

Immediately, I remembered a saying that said that every physical pain comes from an interior issue, a blockage within ourselves.

In seconds, I realized that I went through a difficult period for me those days and I blamed myself. That blame stored itself in me and it results physical pain.

I accepted myself, I loved and I forgave myself. Tears came down my cheeks, I started to sneeze and my skin was itching. I eliminated all the blame in me.

We tend to accept a lot of negative and bad actions, behaviour, words from people, from the exterior, but why when it comes to our body expressing itself we don't embrace it?