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Feelings of Pain and Discomfort:
A Manifestation of God’s Attributes of

The Most Compassionate and The Most Merciful

Feeling pain or discomfort plays a very important role in our lives, because
these sensations notify us that there is a problem in our bodies. When the re-
ceptors in our skin react to things that are harming us and send urgent mes-
sages to the brain, we can then take measures to allay that discomfort.

ACUTE PAIN CHRONIC PAIN

3-After determining the lo- 3- By preventing the elimina-
cation, features and inten- tion of pain impulses, chronic
sity of the pain, the brain pain may cause loss of con-
sends messages that trol in an individual. The feel-
block the nerve signals in ing of increased pain stems
order to reduce this pain. from this.

2-
2- Chemical Accumulation
neurotransmit- of messages
ters pass these produces
pain signals new chemical
from one nerve pathways in
to another by the synapses
way of the in the spinal
synapses. Thus cord. This
the message is makes the
transmitted as nerves much
far as the brain. more sensi-
tive to pain
signals.
1- A nail that
pierces the 1- When the
skin stimu- nerve end-
lates nerve ings are stim-
endings, ulated by in-
which send jury, an alarm
an alarm sig- signal is sent
nal all along to the spinal
the nerves in cord and
reaction to in- brain.
jury. This sig- Pressure
nal is turned placed on a
into a chemi- nerve root or
cal message nerve fiber
in the spinal has also the
cord. same effect.