Pain
Pain is part of growth. And remember, whenever something hurts, something inside vou is repressed. So rather than trying to avoid the pain, move into it. Let it hurt like hell. Let it hurt totally so the wound is opened completely. Once it is opened completely, the wound starts healing. If you avoid these spaces when you feel pain, they will remain inside, and you will come across them again and again, because they are part of you.
There is one method I would like to tell you about. Whenever you feel any pain -- even an ordinary headache -- just sit silently and focus your whole mind on the headache.
Listen to it... almost touch the texture of it. And intensify it;- make it more and more tense, and pinpoint where it is. The more you concentrate, the more it will go on shrinking. Then it will come to a point, a needle-point. It will not be the whole head. First you will feel just the front part, then you will feel that it is shrinking just in the middle. Then it becomes just a needlepoint -- but a very sharp pain. Just remain with it.
If you can remain with that sharp-pointed pain, suddenly you will see that it has disappeared. Try it with ordinary pain -- headache, stomach ache, or anything. And by and by try psychological pain. Somebody has insulted you and you feel hurt, or you have come across something inside you and a pain arises, a memory, a wound from the past. Just go into it. Accept it and go into it totally, and when it has become just a needle-point, suddenly it will disappear.
-Osho, "Be Realistic: Plan for a Miracle, #4"