Transcending pain, I want to share with you an experience that I had many years ago and the lesson that I learned from it because it's had a huge impact and made a big difference in my life. Don't resist feel the pain to its fullest and move about it. These were the words I heard in meditation when I was agonizing over going to the dentist with a very bad toothache. I was young, but I still had all kinds of memories of as a child when I went to the dentist often, and I even had one six year molar abscess, and it had to be pulled. And believe it or not, those were the days when they didn't always use a numbing agent. The dentist's pulled a tooth with no painkiller, and I decided that in there that the dentist was not going to be in my future.
So I hadn't been to a dentist and 11 years when this experience came about, but I had developed this very deep cavity that was quite painful. So I was a bit torn still resisting going to the dentist, knowing that I needed to do something because it was quite painful. So on meditation one day this question, of course, was on my mind this little dilemma, though I was not consciously asking for an answer. I think my higher self knew the burden This was posing for me and came to my rescue with a solution. And this solution, it turned out to be one of the most valuable life lessons ever. I was told and shown that the greatest pain happens when I resist a situation and that when I'm in the dentist's chair, I need to relax.
Visualize the spiral of energy moving from my head upward, just a slow spiral movement of light. And then when I feel the pain of the dentist drill, I should move into that pain, not resist But move into it, and with a desire to actually feel it to its intensity, but at the same time, ride that spiral of energy through the pain to above it. Now, this instructional experience was so powerful that I absolutely knew this was possible to do. I had great faith that would work. So I went to the dentist. I informed him that I didn't want any numbing agent.
He was not only surprised but very concerned because he reminded me this was a very deep cavity and it would be painful. But nevertheless, he let me proceed. So I did exactly as I was instructed, I relaxed myself completely as I could. I visualized the spiral of energy, just as I had seen it in my meditation. And when he began drilling, I did exactly as I was instructed. I moved into the pain and threw it above it.
Follow that spiral of light up. Now amazingly, I felt the incredible intensity of the pain of my tooth, only for a second or less, as I moved with that spiral through it, and was then firmly anchored above it. And I stayed there until the dentist's was finished. Now, this was not a numbing experience. I felt the pain throughout the procedure, but I was not in it. I was above it.
There's a huge difference, a big difference. And here in lies the lesson. When facing difficult, challenging, painful or even tragic experiences, we can handle the associated pain by not resisting it, accepting what is there and by fully accepting the reality of the situation and all that goes with it, but moving through it to the other Beside or above it or whatever your perspective is, you can, from that perspective, be far more capable of handling any situation that you're faced with and not be destroyed or permanently damaged by it or give the wrong response. And keep in mind, once you have a momentum on doing this, you don't even need to visualize the spiral of light. You just project yourself above it or through it, you just are there, you move to that position. And you find that you can handle any situation.
You still Yes, may feel the pain, but you are not in it. You're able to look at it from a different perspective. Now, incidentally, I was able to do this same procedure with a number of dentists visits that follow this initial one I use this process. And I'm not recommending that you do this in the dentist's chair or whatever. I just want to convey the lesson because it will serve you well in many areas of your life, particularly in overcoming your fears. And that's what we're going to cover in the next lesson.
So, I'll see you there