Why Pain Can be a Good Thing During Meditation

Someone was stabbing me between the shoulder blades with one of those big kitchen knives.
Or, at least, that’s what the mental activity going on in my mind would have me believe.
In reality, I was sitting in the meditation yurt, in a beautiful patch of desert way out in the Arizona wilderness. And my body just wasn’t used to spending 16 hours a day alternating between sitting and walking meditation.
Hence the pain in my back.
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