Month: September 2021
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Chronic pain causes a fracture. You need to reassemble your Humpty Dumpty self and you need all the pieces
When you develop chronic pain through accident or disease, you can think you and your world are falling apart. You may come to believe that nothing is strong enough to bring your life back to a functioning whole. Like Humpty Dumpty, you need all the king’s men and women, especially you, to put yourself back…
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Optional Stressors
Optional stressors are usually created by negative belief systems, judgmental thinking, rationalizations, assumptions, and magical thinking. Don’t base your definition of your experience on these things. Instead, allow your perception, thinking, and feelings, to be based on awareness not opinions. You can avoid any artificial stressors when you deal with negative realities in this fashion.…
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The weight of chronic pain is the weight of your suffering
While it is popular to think that suffering builds character, we have found that suffering instead creates existential weight, and unravels character. You can speak to your experience in many ways. Something happens: you didn’t get elected to the office you were seeking, you didn’t get the job you wanted, your pet died, your break…