Chronic Pain: Here’s how to manage chronic pain with healthy thinking. Feeling damaged or destroyed? Is your body splintered, cracked or fractured? People with chronic pain tend to develop bleak, gloomy or cold thoughts that lead to stress, depression, and anxiety. These can make mental anguish, body aches and pains as well as a broken spirit even worse.
The good news is you do have control over the way you think. It’s cool to be kind – to yourself. Start to show warmth to yourself with this 3-step process using heightened awareness to stop, ask, and choose, you can replace unhealthy thoughts with life-giving ones that are vibrant, zestful, and sparkling. The next time you catch yourself thinking something that’s not serving you well, ask yourself ‘How true is this thought?’ And ‘Is this thought helpful?’ Then choose a counter thought that can alter the way you feel, right away. Now, say it aloud.
Looking for more? Peruse Chapter 11: The Power of the Tongue of ‘Rise Above: A Playbook On How-To Keep Energy Flowing.’
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Dr. Jaime L. Pula is the author of her newly released book titled, ‘Rise Above: A Playbook On How-To Keep Energy Flowing.’ She can be reached at jpula@artofhealthsciences.life. And she enjoys connecting on LI at: www.linkedin.com/in/drjaimelpula001/.