Can you mature without experiencing pain?

Question

is there another way to learn........
pain is loosely defined here.

Answer 1

experiencing pain is something that either can help you to mature in life or cause you to be set back. as far as maturing without experiencing pain, i've never met someone that never experienced some sort of pain(in the form of sadness, sorrow, regret,anger,etc...) in their lifetime so theoretically I don't think it would be possible.

what's that phrase, oh yes: no pain no gain...

Answer 2

If you are defining pain loosely you must also define mature loosely. To mature: Or age physically as it is loosely defined, is impossible to experience without any sort of pain. The bones expand, the muscles tense and streach to accomodate the lengthening bones and that in itself causes pain in children and young adults. The first example of this is when a baby gets its first teeth. They must break through bone and muscle and flesh which causes tremendous pain to the infant. Therefore, with both terms loosely defined your answer is...No.

Answer 3

Growth is a response to stimulus. Maturation is a sort of growth, one that implies a change of mind set. This happens often simply in the process of growing older; experience and natural biological process over time transform the rashness of youth into a more mature wisdom.

Pain is an immediate stimulus. In the course of growing older, it may arise that some personal growth is needed beyond that which will occur naturally. Pain makes it worth for a person to alter his or her course in life; change by itself is painful, even besides the circumstances that necessitate it. Pain indicates when we must change, like attraction indicates when we must kiss.

Each walks their own path in life. Some find more pain, and greater struggle. Others find life more genteel. Maturation will occur for both, and will mean something different to each. Maturation is something that only you can feel and only you can know, an awakening in your own eyes.

Answer 4

I do not think it possible to mature without experiencing pain.

Mature suggests full and complete development and ones development is not complete without pain, joy, sorrow - well you get the idea.

Is there another way to learn?

Yes. That is where life experience and wisdom come into play.

Answer 5

I believe you can. Experiencing some pain in part of life and its part of the big duality of this universe. How could you know what is hot, if you didn't know what cold is?? How can you experience wealth, if you don't know what poverty is??
However. the wiser you get the less you need to experience a bad feeling if you keep you vibrations, thought, actions, and words positive. You will just remember those negative things/thougth, and immediately think of something positive to even it out and to not bring it in your current experience.
I don't know if you have heard about the Law of Attraction, but it basically says that what we vibrate we bring into our reality. Have you notice those people that are always complaining, they are ussually broke or they are always expericing negative events? If we think, talk, act negatively, we attract negative experiences. So the trick is to always think, act, talk, and specially feel good. Enven you don't actually feel good, just visualizing a pleasant event and feeling it in your body will make you feel better.
Ok..its getting late!! Cheers

Answer 6

It is impossible to avoid pain in the real world. There are different levels of it, and not everybody happens to go to high levels of it. But it is impossible to avoid. If you avoid a big pain, and smaller pain becomes your big pain. If you avoid that one as well, then even an average discomfort will be charachterised as pain. Humans are highly adaptive creatures...

Answer 7

I would like to believe that you could and or can mature in this life without ever experiencing pain, but again, there are many forms of pain, e.g., emotional, physical, mental, spiritual. I myself will never get to know, since I lost my mother at 19 and her death forced me to mature overnight, while others in life never experience something traumatic that would force them to re-evaluate life as they know it, but that group of people has to be small.

Answer 8

i think pain is the only way to learn and mature

Answer 9

"Without pain and suffering, life is not complete." And believe me, there is no easy way to learn. "Life is a lesson, we learn the essence of it when we are through."

Answer 10

intresting. I guess not, because suffering is what defines character - if you haven't endured pain you can't appreciate anything and therefore can't flesh out your morality