{"id":44,"date":"2024-12-13T16:26:07","date_gmt":"2024-12-13T16:26:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mftsolutions.ca\/blog\/?p=44"},"modified":"2024-12-13T16:27:51","modified_gmt":"2024-12-13T16:27:51","slug":"no-pain-no-gain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mftsolutions.ca\/blog\/index.php\/2024\/12\/13\/no-pain-no-gain\/","title":{"rendered":"No Pain, No Gain"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"640\" src=\"https:\/\/mftsolutions.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/DraggedImage.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-43\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mftsolutions.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/DraggedImage.png 640w, https:\/\/mftsolutions.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/DraggedImage-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/mftsolutions.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/DraggedImage-150x150.png 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Did you notice the typo above? It was a convenient image. But the problem with convenience is that I can&#8217;t edit it&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I was sitting in the dentist\u2019s chair this morning, having made an appointment to explore the cause of my tooth pain. Of course, to diagnose the pain you have to experience it. So the dentist says to his assistant, \u201cGet the cold probe ready, please.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And I groan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And he leans over and says to me, \u201cAh, I see you know the drill.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sometime later I got the reference to \u201cdrill\u201d and I laughed. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThat took you twenty minutes, Carl,\u201d my coworker said. \u201cYou\u2019re slow this morning.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And so I am. Slow, and pondering my age and things breaking down.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On the way to work I pass a sign that says, \u201cOnly through Jesus will you have eternal life.\u201d I happen to be a clergyman. But I look at that sign each morning and I think, \u201cThat\u2019s not true. Everyone has eternal &#8211; something.\u201d I don\u2019t know whether you call it life, but all the parts of me, no matter how many have served their useful function and may have to be removed before the rest of me becomes the smoking hot body I\u2019ve always wanted &#8211; the sum total of what makes me me, will persist in some form after the body that is me stops whining and breathing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The elements of which I am comprised aren\u2019t going anywhere. Ashes to ashes, dust to dust. Paul Tillich<sup><a id=\"ffn1\" href=\"#fn1\" class=\"footnote\">1<\/a><\/sup> has a lot to say about dust, the stuff of which we are made. Atoms, molecules, energy &#8211; neither created nor destroyed. I will persist in some state.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Even that tooth that has to come out next week will persist, apart from me. Not the first part of me that I have had to part with. Another part of me is departing for parts unknown. But it will persist. I will persist. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I just hope I don\u2019t spread myself too thin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I\u2019m playing with a concept called \u201cacceptance\u201d, made popular by Steve Hayes\u2019s Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT<sup><a id=\"ffn2\" href=\"#fn2\" class=\"footnote\">2<\/a><\/sup>. According to Hayes, health requires psychological flexibility. And psychological flexibility requires acceptance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Acceptance is, according to Hayes as reported by Dave Moran<sup><a id=\"ffn3\" href=\"#fn3\" class=\"footnote\">3<\/a><\/sup>, \u201cActively contacting psychological experiences directly, fully, and without needless defence while behaving effectively.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So I am trying to let go of this tooth more graciously than the last. This isn\u2019t my first extraction and likely won\u2019t be my last. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I grieved the last tooth and I will grieve this one. 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You can get a dopamine hit from each bit of information without having to work for it (also without knowing whether it is reliable). Too much of this makes me feel sort of thin and stretched in the way I hope not to end up. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Then I pick up a book.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Life is short. Life is hard. That\u2019s okay. Engage every moment of it fully. Enjoy it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you see my tooth, say hello.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Tillich P (1963), <em>Systematic Theology Volume Three<\/em> Chicago: University of Chicago Press <a href=\"#ffn1\">\u21a9<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Hayes SC et al (2011). <em>Acceptance and Commitment Therapy: The Process and Practice of Mindful Change.<\/em> New York: Guilford Press <a href=\"#ffn2\">\u21a9<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Dr. Moran gives an entertaining introduction to ACT therapy in a PESI lecture, catalog.pesi.com <a href=\"#ffn3\">\u21a9<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Burkeman, Oliver. 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