On Pain

• We all have experienced pain, be it physical or psychological.
• Trying to quantify or define the intensity of the hurt being experienced isn’t easy.
• Pain is relative, as each of us has a different anatomical and neurochemical build, a different context that makes it unique...

• Biologists still haven’t found the mystery nociceptor that detects hammer blows, a knife cut or a small pinprick.
• Chronic pain is often not understood in many individuals, who are then left untreated.
• We still don’t know the exact area which produces the ‘hurt’ of the pain...

Only our brain — an organ that itself cannot feel pain — can feel pain. Headaches are not even our brain hurting.

There is not much difference between physical and emotional pain. Both can be reduced through a variety of means, like pleasant aromas or music. In many ways, we feel the pain w...