Awareness of Deep Pain is Necessary in Healing

I was not able to sleep from the pain of the injury last week, so I got up and chanted.  I ran my internal energy along the line of the pain inside my hip.  I was using tuning forks to search out the pain and to soothe it, so this was easier than it would be if I was just following the pain in the normal way. I felt the pain because of my treatment, or because of my breathing practice, I am not sure.  

But feeling pain is a sure sign that we are alive.  Right after the injury, the pain went away because I treated it.  The more I treated myself, the more dull the pain became.  A few days ago when I began to feel the pain on the surface of by hip, I knew that I had not completely healed myself.  There is nothing so dangerous as hidden pain.  That pain can be emotional or physical.  Usually they are linked. When the pain comes out of that deep hidden place, I remember again how thankful I am to be alive.