This is so fucking awesome and also bizarre that you wrote this NOW-- you are so a part of my soul family. Larken and I just had some serious and profound discussions, which lead to some intense healing, all around this-- that the tendency in the modern age to think pain is the worst thing and something to just avoid... is a whole new danger all its own. With consequences that lead to apathy, depression, numbness, laziness, callousness, and mental breaks.

Pain is a signal.
Signals have meaning. This is why they are signals, not NOISE.
We cannot wipe an intentional signal out with noise. The signal will still be a sign of a problem, and if it's in your mind and heart (much like in thr physical body), ignoring it will only make it fester, or get worse, and turn the signal up louder so we have to work harder to drown it out.