GOOD PAIN, BAD PAIN

The relationship of pain to virtue and vice

Pieta, from the Borghese Chapel of the church of the Trinita dei Monti, Rome

Pain cannot be avoided. The good news is that there is Good Pain and Bad Pain - and seeking to avoid both makes everything worse.

Today I will talk about pain in the physical, moral and psychological sense.

What I laughingly call my life has been an education in this matter and here are some of the lessons I have reluctantly learned.

In brief

• Seeking to avoid pain brings bad pain.

• Embracing the good pain banishes the bad.

What is the difference and what can you do about it?