Ouch!

Pain seems like a fairly straightforward experience you get hurt and it, well, hurts. But how would you describe it? By the number of broken bones or stitches? By the cause the crowning baby, the sharp knife, the straying lover? What does a 7 on a pain scale of 1 to 10 really mean?

Pain is complicated. But most of the time, the way we treat pain is superficial we seek out states of perfect p...