Most people experience and view pain as an unwanted nuisance, a scourge to be avoided as quickly and as completely as possible, and to be eliminated as soon as possible. This is certainly the prevalent view among the vast majority of conventional therapists, and nearly to the same extent among most complementary/ alternative therapists. The majority of CAM therapies are focused on symptom relief. Though they offer enormous, low-risk benefits, and often focus on preventive approaches in addition to symptom relief, they are rarely wholistic. That is, they rarely address every level of a persons being: body, emotions, mind, relationships (with other people and the environment) and spirit Clients frequently come to me for help with physical pains, often of many years duration. I am bemused, in the context of this editorial musing, that time and time again I am the beneficiary of their lessons from their pains. My own life has generally been free of physical pains. I love my body, enjoy exercising it and have for the most part avoided serious injuries and chronic pains. So, in the unfolding of the lessons that I offer clients on dialoguing with their pains to learn what their inner self is wanting to teach them I come away with enormous gratitude that they have apparently undertaken to learn these shared lessons through suffering these pains, unknowingly gifting me as well with their lessons. And I come away the beneficiary of their lessons in clearing their pains and mine