Story #3 - Pain in the Guts
(Mike is a talented stand-up comedian who describes here a mystery pain in his guts that developed after he moved to a new country, and his meditation technique to get rid of it forever - WS)
I was walking down the street one day on my way to work and all of a sudden had a stabbing pain in my guts region. Ow! I thought, darn is this a hernia or ulcer or something? I knew very nothing about health matters.
The pain was on the lower left side of my guts. I got on with the day, and that week went in to see a doctor. Hmm, he couldn’t feel anything weird - and sent me to get an x-ray. Hmm, they couldn’t find anything weird.
It’s worth noting that this all happened in my first weeks in a strange country doing a job that was quite daunting. Also worth noting that since I was in a strange country, I was paying heavily for all this medical treatment. Also worth noting that I was close to being homeless in this strange country, and the daunting job was the only way away from this.
The stabbing pain came back many times over the next year, an eventful and stressful one, and I had visited the x-rayer a few more times. Ka-ching, ka-ching.
Then time passed, as in years, and one night I found myself lying in bed having reached a sort of general peace. The pain came back and I got to thinking about it deeply. What the Heck was up with this weird pain? I had recently done a meditation course that had taught me to analyze physical pain from an outside perspective, and I gave this old ‘friend’ such a treatment. I mentally boarded a tiny inner submarine and shot down from my mind to my guts. And lo and behold, the thing dissolved like mist under the glare of sunshine. Utterly gone. Once a monster, now a coward - like all devils.
If it ever came back again, I don’t remember.
Mike Sheer
June 29th, 2010
London UK
