Purposeful Pain
Download Purposeful Pain full books in PDF, epub, and Kindle. Read online free Purposeful Pain ebook anywhere anytime directly on your device. Fast Download speed and no annoying ads. We cannot guarantee that every ebooks is available!
| Author | : Susan Guise Sheridan |
| Publisher | : Springer Nature |
| Total Pages | : 281 |
| Release | : 2020-01-03 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 3030321819 |
Pain is an evolutionary and adaptive mechanism to prevent harm to an individual. Beyond this, how it is defined, expressed, and borne is dictated culturally. Thus, the study of pain requires a holistic approach crossing cultures, disciplines, and time. This volume explores how and why pain-inducing behaviors are selected, including their potential to demonstrate individuality, navigate social hierarchies, and express commitment to an ideal. It also explores how power dynamics affect individual choice, at times requiring self-induced suffering. Taking bioanthropological and bioarchaeological approaches, this volume focuses on those who purposefully seek pain to show that, while often viewed as “exotic,” the pervasiveness of pain-inducing practices is more normative than expected. Theory and practice are employed to re-conceptualize pain as a strategic path towards achieving broader individual and societal goals. Past and present motivations for self-inflicted pain, its socio-political repercussions, and the physical manifestations of repetitive or long-term pain inducing behaviors are examined. Chapters span geographic and temporal boundaries and a wide variety of activities to illustrate how purposeful pain is used by individuals for personal expression and manipulated by political powers to maintain the status quo. This volume reveals how bioarchaeology illuminates paleopathology, how social theory enhances bioarchaeology, and how ethnography benefits from a longer temporal perspective.
| Author | : Jay Nixon |
| Publisher | : Archangel Ink |
| Total Pages | : 228 |
| Release | : 2019-07 |
| Genre | : Self-Help |
| ISBN | : 9781942761952 |
Learn How to Turn Tragedy and Pain into a Catalyst for Growth and Success! It's been said that pain is a fundamental part of life-a darkness that acts as a contrast to the light. Most, if not all of us experience pain at some point in our lives, particularly the emotional pain of loss. While it may be true that pain is unavoidable, it doesn't have to lead to meaningless suffering. Pain can serve a far greater purpose in your life than something to be feared. Jay Nixon, the bestselling author of The Overweight Mind: The Undeniable Truth Behind Why You're Not Losing Weight is back with a groundbreaking new book, The Purpose of Pain: How to Turn Tragedy into Triumph, Because Life's Not Supposed to Suck! The Purpose of Pain is a transformational guide that shows you how to turn pain into a catalyst for change-how you can turn your story of tragedy into a life of triumph. In the book, Nixon chronicles his personal struggle with the pain of losing his father at age five in a devastating head-on car crash - an event that cast a two decade-long shadow over his life. Using a combination of direct truths and a touch of humor, Nixon walks you step by step through the process he used to overcome the tragedy that had dominated his life, and turn it into a life of triumph and success. The result is a compassionate guide that anyone can use to conquer emotional pain in all of its many forms. In this book, you'll learn: How honoring your pain helps jumpstart the healing process Tools and tactics to avoid tragedy that dictate your future How to shift your mindset from victim to warrior How to use your pain for purpose instead of sadness Why rituals are powerful and how to use them to heal Permission to stop feeling guilty about claiming the happiness you deserve What the Personal Development Vortex is-and how to avoid it. ...and much more! Most of all, you'll pinpoint the habits and thinking patterns you've been unconsciously using to sabotage your own progress, so you can overcome your pain and turn it into a catalyst for progress. Jay Nixon is an internationally recognized transformation coach who has been profiled by ABS, CBS and FOX. He has also been featured in magazines such as Health and Triathlete. With his extensive coaching and speaking career and deep life experience, plus his witty but purposeful writing style, there's no one better qualified to explain the benefits (yes, benefits!) of suffering than Nixon.
| Author | : Leigh Cowart |
| Publisher | : Public Affairs |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2023-07-18 |
| Genre | : Psychology |
| ISBN | : 9781541798038 |
An exploration of why people all over the world love to engage in pain on purpose--from dominatrices, religious ascetics, and ultramarathoners to ballerinas, icy ocean bathers, and sideshow performers Masochism is sexy, human, reviled, worshipped, and can be delightfully bizarre. Deliberate and consensual pain has been with us for millennia, encompassing everyone from Black Plague flagellants to ballerinas dancing on broken bones to competitive eaters choking down hot peppers while they cry. Masochism is a part of us. It lives inside workaholics, tattoo enthusiasts, and all manner of garden variety pain-seekers. At its core, masochism is about feeling bad, then better--a phenomenon that is long overdue for a heartfelt and hilarious investigation. And Leigh Cowart would know: they are not just a researcher and science writer--they're an inveterate, high-sensation seeking masochist. And they have a few questions: Why do people engage in masochism? What are the benefits and the costs? And what does masochism have to say about the human experience? By participating in many of these activities themselves, and through conversations with psychologists, fellow scientists, and people who seek pain for pleasure, Cowart unveils how our minds and bodies find meaning and relief in pain--a quirk in our programming that drives discipline and innovation even as it threatens to swallow us whole.
| Author | : Charlotte R. Hall |
| Publisher | : Lulu.com |
| Total Pages | : 144 |
| Release | : 2018-12-16 |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : 0359259642 |
When pain is experienced, one endures intense suffering, distress, and torment. You might ask, how can purpose be the final product of such agony? Furthermore, how does one gain power from a weak place? The answers to these questions are nestled in this 21-day journey toward healing. You are sure to be encouraged and empowered by the author's personal pain and triumph. Moreover, each devotion provides a step-by-step process that allows you to discover the purpose and power in your pain.
| Author | : Chad Veach |
| Publisher | : Thomas Nelson |
| Total Pages | : 224 |
| Release | : 2016-03-08 |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : 0718038363 |
“Where was God when ____? How could God allow ____? Why?” These are the questions that flood our hearts and minds when the unimaginable happens. When things go horribly wrong and the world seems to be unraveling, how do you believe in God’s goodness? How do you cling to hope? Chad Veach directs readers away from clichéd Sunday school answers that fail to offer real comfort or provide faith-building insights. Instead, he draws from God’s promises in the Bible and from the story of his own daughter’s diagnosis of a devastating and debilitating disease to reveal simple, purposeful steps for dealing with pain. Resting in God’s love, remembering his past faithfulness, and realizing the distinction between having faith and clinging to hope are just some of these steps. Veach reminds us that because we know who God is, we know there is hope.
| Author | : Etse E. Oriakhi |
| Publisher | : Christian Faith Publishing, Inc. |
| Total Pages | : 110 |
| Release | : 2021-03-11 |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : 109804682X |
Life is a journey of winding turns-full of good times and bad times. Everyone experiences challenges and life's troubles. We often run away from pain and suffering and wish they were never a part of our lives. The author of this book, however, believes that there is a purpose for every pain and trouble that we suffer in this life and hence encourages that we embrace pain and learn from it.In this book you will learn:How to deal with the uncertainties in the journey of life.The purpose of pain and how to take advantage of pain.How to overcome the troubles and challenges that come to try your faith.How God intervenes in our affairs when all human help fails.How to praise God in good and in bad times.What to do when left alone in your Gethsemane.How to trust God in times of challenging circumstances.How to exercise your faith in the face of negative facts.Why pain and troubles do not last forever.How to live above your limitations and ugly circumstances.
| Author | : John Raquet |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 274 |
| Release | : 2021-03-09 |
| Genre | : Parenting |
| ISBN | : 9781952599194 |
Sometimes in our childhood, we fantasize about our future parenting skills and how we will be the ultimate mom or dad. These grand visions rarely survive the first few months of our own journey as parents-once that specter of self-will first manifests in our new bundle of joy. We quickly learn that while parenting is infinitely rewarding and a wonderful blessing, it is also a difficult, sometimes confusing, often thankless responsibility. We find ourselves wishing for a clear, simple, and preferably, illustrated instruction manual. In Purposeful and Persistent Parenting, John and Cindy Raquet seek to share, through encouraging examples of their journey toward God-honoring parenthood, the lessons they learned in raising their eight children. With personal stories of triumph and failure, goal-setting (and resetting), many practical tips, and a little blue tape, they hope that this work will be a valuable companion on your own adventure in parenting and instrumental in helping you to truly enjoy the work of raising your children.
| Author | : John L. Fitzgerald |
| Publisher | : Springer |
| Total Pages | : 195 |
| Release | : 2019-09-30 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 9811056404 |
This book explores pain in a number of ways. At the heart of the book is an extension of Melzack’s neuromatrix theory of pain into the social, cultural, and economic fields. Specific assemblages involving varied institutions, flows of capital, encounters, and social and economic structures provide a framework for the formation of pain, its perception, experience, meaning, and cultural production. Complementing the extended neuromatrix is a second theory, focussed on the propensity of western market capitalism to seek out new areas of life to subsume to capital. Pain is one such life area that is now ripe for exploitation. Although the book has theory at its heart, it draws extensively on case studies to identify the contradictions and complexities. Case studies are drawn from accounts of drug use in varied contexts such as prescription drugs, methamphetamine use, oxycodone use in North America, and the global rise of the medicinal cannabis marketplace.
| Author | : D'Andre J Lacy |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 134 |
| Release | : 2020-10-20 |
| Genre | : |
| ISBN | : |
"D'Andre is a great example of what it means to be BOLD and unapologetically transparent! I've watched him put his heart, soul, and secrets into this book in hopes that lives will be transformed and families restored. It's not often that you find menstrong enough to be vulnerable and sensitive with topics dear to their hearts. This book is a must-read!"Jacob Marsh, Recording Artist & Music Producer
| Author | : Casey Beaumier |
| Publisher | : Loyola Press |
| Total Pages | : 112 |
| Release | : 2015-02-25 |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : 0829442510 |
Lewis and Clark did it. Jack Kerouac did too. So did Forrest Gump. They are wanderers and wonderers, explorers of life, setting out to see what they can find in the world, in others, and most importantly, in themselves. It might be daunting and surely difficult but for Jesuit Novice, Casey Beaumier, $30 in cash, a one-way bus ticket, and a dream were enough. In A Purposeful Path, Casey Beaumier, SJ, shares his story of how a begging pilgrimage helped him discern his direction in life, and encourages other young people to discover their own purpose by embracing, of all things, vulnerability. Tag along as Beaumier finds himself cold, hungry, and tired along the Appalachian Trail, reliant only on the kindness of strangers and his faith to make it through in one piece. Laugh, cry, and cringe with Beaumier as he nervously makes his way through the once-in-a-lifetime holiday dinner with a literary legend. See through his eyes as he navigates the streets and culture of New York City, and beyond. Through it all, Beaumier discovers that the best way through life’s hard battles is to trust God and keep on moving. Part modern travel adventure, part memoir of finding one’s true calling, A Purposeful Path invites young adults to actively seek out their own trails, going out to explore the unknown in themselves, and learn that by being honest and open with God, others, and themselves, a true life’s calling awaits.
