Let's talk about pain. Pain comes in many forms. Physiological, psychological, emotional. We've all experienced pain in our lives and we all know that pain doesn't feel so good. I've experienced all kinds of pain in my life, like anybody else. These past ten years, in particular, I've really had quite an intimate relationship with pain. We know each other well. It's a part of me. From the totally debilitating pain of migraine headaches...to the psychological torture of prison...to the loss of dear friends...to the emotional hall-of-fame level pain via consequences of drug addiction and alcoholism...hunger, homelessness, psychosis...solitude, insanity and darkness. Pain. We all know pain. And it hurts.
Recently, scientists have discovered that we also inherit certain forms of pain from our parents and grandparents, etc. Geneticists and biologists have determined that the emotional pain experienced during traumatic events actually, in a way, get imprinted into our genetic codes and gets passed down generationally. It's an interesting new field called epigenetics, and a lot of what they are discovering makes a lot of sense.
