Pain doesn't happen for no reason. Until we look at what's causing pain, pain isn't going to go away. In other words, pain has a message to give us. Pain tells us that something isn't working, and we'd better find out what. Pain sends a warning signal, and we put ourselves in peril if we turn that warning system off.
Pain operates on many levels.
These forms often point to deeper levels of pain. Personal pain, in other words, is seldom entirely personal. Oh yes, we feel it as persons, but the roots of it are almost never just personal. We come from a context, a web of connectedness, and that entire web is very much present in personal pain. Indeed, we could say that we as individuals function together as society's nervous system, and that our personal pain is like a pain in society's head or chest.