Whatever is up for us in our lives, is what we've got to work with. Whether we have back pain or heartache, depression or cancer, whatever pain or suffering we are experiencing can be seen as a wake up call, an opportunity to reevaluate our lives. While we of course must make every effort to heal our symptoms through medical and other healing modalities, if all we focus on is trying to “make the pain go away” we might miss the deeper message that any imbalance in our lives might reveal, and we might miss an opportunity for real healing of heart and mind and body.