As the practice deepens, my chaotic thoughts and emotions, memories fond and painful, yield all manner of sensations: pain in my joints, leaps in my chest, tingling behind my neck.
"If you say no, you'll eventually get to yes, but the journey will be very painful".
Or, putting the geography to one side, to mid-table in the most watched league in world football via one relegation, a painful administration and 11 different managers – permanent, interim or caretaker – at Palace alone.
When it came, the charge of complicity with David Cameron was all the more painful because it was true.
As Matthew, one of the narrators, says: "I've learned that when you lose things that are important, it can be a good thing, even though it's painful.
Sure, there might be some benefits in learning to stop your brain whirring 24 hours a day, but to do that while sitting on a hard wooden floor for 10 hours a day while nursing a painful shoulder is probably not advisable.
If they're allowed to turn toxic, painful stories from people's lives have the potential to become dangerous, by threatening to tip Uganda's decades-long cycle of violence into a new revolution.
Many of these councils are coming because they have no other means of raising serious cash: three decades after Thatcher's rate caps, and four years into the most painful cuts faced by local government, they are flat broke.
It is difficult to register them all and too painful too".
This had a lot to do with her painful shyness as an adolescent, the result of a complicated upbringing.
She said it was a "painful and unwelcome experience".
