In Bruce Springsteen's "Thunder Road", there's a line that goes "you can hide 'neath the covers and study your pain". I love that line! And he got it right, although accidentally I suspect. I don't hide beneath the covers, but I do "study my pain"... as up-close and detailed as I can get. This is sort of like running INTO the burning building instead of AWAY from it -- our instinct is to try to escape pain, to push it away, to numb or distract ourselves, to get busy and wait for it to go away, etc. With some kinds of pain -- i.e. a physical wound or injury -- it's fine to just pop a couple of pills and wait until the healing deals with the problem. But life is full of many other kinds of pain that don't submit to that cure, such as the pain of a lost loved one or the pain of being passed over for a promotion. It IS possible to diminish this kind of pain by various escape or suppression methods, but there's a price that is paid when we do that: basically, we're less ALIVE in exchange for escaping our hurt. The best way to resolve these pains is to walk right into the fire... to allow oneself to experience it fully and deeply, without resistance, denial, suppression, distraction, or any of those habitual escape valves. When you can do that, you stop being separate from the pain -- you ARE the pain -- and while it continues to hurt, the anxiety and suffering disappear. When there's ONLY the pain (as opposed to "me vs. the pain"), life starts moving again. That's when healing happens at the level of the heart and mind. The more one can study the pain up close like that, the less time it takes to come out the other side with a new day and a fresh mind.

I take analgesics and I deal with the rest of it.

I send him off to work and tell him to have a nice day;)

Carry on with life because pain is a part of it.

I use humor every day and it works.

I cry like a baby.

I stuff it in to a tiny little box and lock it away. Lord help us if the box ever opens up!!

Either try to remove it or deal with it.

I choke on it. And then I store it away for ever so that it can haunt me for years to come. I don't recommend this method, but I don't know what else to do with it!

I shake it off and move on. I hate to be stuck in the same feeling. Its actually good to be in pain but also bad.

Try to make myself very busy and wait when the time heal this pain.