Take Charge of Chronic Pain
Does Your Chronic Pain Look Like This?
If So, It Is Likely To Be Mind-Based Chronic Pain.
- The pain is ongoing or intermittent for longer than three to six months.
- Absence of an identifiable pathology or anatomical cause of the pain.
- Pain that persists over time and is often resistant to medical treatment.
- You have seen a number of health care practitioners for the pain without a satisfactory resolution.
- Some intervention(s) treated the pain but it has come back or has shown up in a different area.
- Pain that began without any obvious cause.
- Pain that comes and goes, even in different areas of the body.
- Pain that began directly following a major loss, life change or psychological trauma.
- Pain for which you have been told in a condescending, belittling or discounted way: “It’s all in your head and just get over it.”
- Someone having told you your pain is untreatable.
- Someone having told you your pain is always going to be there.
- Muscle or joint pain that is throughout the body.
- Pain that floats about in the low back, upper back, neck, shoulders, knees.
- Fear of possible pain or an increase in level of pain has led to disuse.
- Pain that increases due to stress or emotional factors.
- Pain that increases due to other people intruding into your boundaries.
- Pain that increases due to environmental factors.
- The pain starts or increases when you think about doing an activity, but before you actually undertake it.
- Pain that reduces in response to lowered stress.
- Pain that reduces due to positive thinking.
- Pain that reduces when positive thoughts replace negative thoughts.
- Pain that reduces or disappears when laughing or having fun.
- Pain that reduces or completely leaves due to distraction or deep focus on some other activity.
- Pain that reduces due to smoking, caffeine.
- Pain that reduces due to nurture or caring acts by others.
- Pain that responds particularly well to mindfulness or meditation.
Mind-Based Chronic Pain Can Feel Like:
- Dull Ache
- Stabbing
- Throbbing
- Shooting
- Stinging
- Burning
- Icy Cold
- Numbness
- Tingling
Mind-Based Chronic Pain Can Be Expressed in:
- Migraines
- Headaches
- Discomfort
- Soreness
- Stiffness
- Abdominal Soreness
- Sleep Problems
- Exhaustion
- Weakness
- Fibromyalgia
- Symptom of IBS (Irritable Bowel Syndrome)
Other Conditions that Mind-Based Chronic Pain Can Be Labeled as:
- Ruptured or Herniated Discs
- Nerve Damage
- Postsurgical Pain
- Slipped Disc
- Spinal Stenosis
- Nerve Pain
- Nocipeptive Pain
- Joint Pain
- Bad Knees
- Muscle Pain
- Back Pain
- Breakthrough Pain
- Neuropathic Pain
- Idiopathic Pain
- Fibromyalgia
- Psychogenic Pain
- Post-Trauma Pain
- IBS Irritable Bowel Syndrome
- TMJ Disorders
- Complex Regional Pain Syndrome (CRPS)
Initial Triggers for Mind-Based Chronic Pain Can Be:
- Past Injuries
- Sports Injuries
- Past Surgeries
- Whiplash
- Back Problems
- Depression
- Arthritis
- Too Little Sleep
- Poor Posture
- Lack of Exercise
- Repeated Injuries of Surgeries
- Injuries or Surgeries Associated With a Traumatic Event
- A History of Trauma, Particularly Repeated Traumas
- A History of Unresolved Psychological Issues
- Injuries or Surgeries Associated with Ridicule, Blaming or Shame
- Knee, Ankle or Neck Problems
- Intense or Slow Healing Burns
- A Slow Healing or Problematic Broken Bone
- PTSD (Post Traumatic Stress Disorder)
- Motor Vehicle Accident Injures, particularly when associated with Trauma or Shaming
- Negative Thoughts, Beliefs, Attitudes or Feelings associated with an Injury or the Pain that Followed
- A Period of Highly Reduced or Complete Lack of Sleep
- Being a Particularly Sensitive or “Spirited” Person
- A predisposition to catastrophizing
- Emotional Stress and Tension
- Genetic Predisposition
- Amputation
- A Chronic Disease
- Thyroid Problems
- Being Overweight
ARE YOU READY TO TAKE THE NEXT STEP IN REDUCING AND EVEN ELIMINATING MIND-BASED CHRONIC PAIN?
IT IS TIME TO WATCH A VIDEO THAT WILL HELP YOU:
- Understand the specific ways neuro-networks hold Chronic Pain “stories” and why medical, drug and physical interventions continually come to a dead end, so you can gain hope and no long feel resigned to a life of just “managing” persistent Chronic Pain.
- Gain a perspective of Mind-Based Chronic Pain and Mind-Based Chronic Pain Repattering, so you can make a powerful paradigm shift in understanding and successfully addressing Chronic Pain.
- Learn mind-set fundamentals that lead you out of the suffering of Chronic Pain, so you can celebrate a life of freedom and vibrancy.
- Appreciate the practical, easy to learn and effective tools and exercises of the MBPR System which reach the root of Chronic Pain, so you can eliminate the core forces that initially embedded and continue to drive mind-based Chronic Pain.
