A wound is a type of injury in which the body is damaged internally or externally.

A scar results from the biological process of wound repair in the skin and other tissues of the body. Thus, scarring is a natural part of the healing process.

The process of healing from a physical wound seems quite natural to us. When we wound ourselves or are wounded physically by others, we move quickly and instinctively to limit the amount of damage to the body. We clean and dress our wounds and take care, so that we are not re-injured. We understand and expect varying levels of pain and discomfort, because we understand that this pain is associated with the healing process. We also take precautions to prevent the wound from affecting or damaging the normal workings of the rest of the body.

But this doesn’t seem to be the case with emotional or mental wounds. We lose all sight of this natural process of healing and adopt one of a masochist. With our emotional or mental wounds, we don’t take measures to limit the amount of damage. Instead, we seek ways to increase the damage and intensify the pain. We don’t seek to immediately treat our wounds, but find new and inventive ways to increase the bleeding and increase the size of the wound. We don’t take care not to re-injure our wound before it heals, but rather deliberately re-open, pry, dig, pickprobe our wounds. We go from person to person, showing them to anyone that will listen. Instead of treating our wounds so that they will heal, we allow them to fester and putrefy until we become emotionally and mentally septic.

There is always some pain associated with the natural healing process of a wound, but the unnatural, self-inflicted pain of our masochism never allows for this natural healing. Instead, the pain of the original wound becomes a distant memory. All that remains is the pain of our masochistic “healing” process.

Scars are the evidence of transformation, the end of the healing process. The pain of the wound is complete and the body adapts to bring all systems back into balance.

The “pain of Life” can be greatly reduced by simply abdondoning the masochistic process and allowing your wounds to heal. Treasure your scars for they are evidence of your transformation, the end of the “wounded” phase

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