However , religious practitioners in various traditions have found spiritual benefits from voluntarily bringing upon themselves additional pain and discomfort through corporal mortification .
Life presents the ordinary human being with ample unasked - for occasions to practice redemptive suffering .
Religious practitioners in various traditions have found spiritual benefits from voluntarily bringing upon themselves additional pain and discomfort through corporal mortification .
Life presents the ordinary human being with ample unasked - for occasions to practice redemptive suffering .