DeBakey VA Medical Center in Houston, says our pain threshold goes down when we're sleep-deprived.
His research hints that there might be big benefits to bedside manner in relieving our pain.
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But our pain is not just boredom, uncertainty or even the apparent lack of progress.
In times of disaster, when the waters calm we seek to also learn from our pain.
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"We became listeners interested in the pain of others, because we also needed people to be interested in our pain, " he said.
"It's increasing our range of motion, decreasing our pain that we have after breast cancer surgery and increasing our strength, " Binkley said.
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"Our comfort zone after our husbands were killed was our grief, our pain, this feeling that nobody understood who we were, " Davis said.
It sounds rather painful, and we have no doubt that's a real issue some people suffer from, but considering we've never been diagnosed with such a condition we can't claim that the Whirl Mini alleviated our pain.
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The second reason for our low threshold of tax pain lies deeper: We have allowed our fiscal debates to be framed in a way that highlights only the pain of opening our wallets.
And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God.
Dr Inge said Easter "answers all our deepest pain, anxiety, grief and even death itself".
Will says the welfare state has lowered our national pain threshold.
So to this extent, our tax pain is real, and it is some of the invisible spending programs we fund in this manner that need re-examination.
Many teenagers wise and clever go through these phases, our only pain is that we never got to see Jodi grow and develop further into the person she was.
Tax time will never be pleasant, but making form preparation easier, understanding better how government spending buys useful goods and services, and re-examining the tax expenditures in our tax code at least can mitigate our tax pain.
But we fear the ways in which our deep negativities and the pain of our past might in fact influence our political future.
So as we work down our debts, the hope of the government has been that the Chinese could be persuaded to invest some of their vast surpluses in our infrastructure, in a way that would ease the pain of our economic slowdown and would yield a decent return to China over the long term.
He also thinks the overuse of ibuprofen shows that we have lost the confidence to deal with minor aches and pains in our lives without pain relief.
We played for another 10 years, but we still laugh about the ringing in the ears and the workman-like way we went at each other that spring, conditioning ourselves to raise our threshold for pain.
And while most acknowledge that everyone should share the pain of our times, there are now examples emerging that reveal that the plan goes well beyond a fair sharing of that pain.
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"It is with pain in our heart, but for the bank this is an inevitable decision, " said Bert Bruggink of Rabobank's managing board.
Of course, while rising gas prices mean real pain for our families at the pump, they also mean bigger profits for oil companies.
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Unsurprisingly, once we phrase tax policy as a collective exercise in fiscal masochism, our threshold for tax pain turns out to be very low.
The pain in our pivot came from having to re-calibrate our vision and change the expectations we had in the early days for what the company would become.
"I leave sad because of the pain of our people but with my head held high, " a teary-eyed Bachelet said in a brief farewell address from the La Moneda presidential palace in Santiago, Chile's capital.
The music understood, and it would be there whether we stayed in pain or regained our sanity, which was also painful.
Part of the pain of doing our taxes is that it makes many of us realize just how disorganized our financial records have become.
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