My pain receives as little recognition as possible. My pain does not harbor harmful emotions or intent towards me. Pain is faceless, odorless and invisible like the wind.
Science can not gauge its severity yet. Others can not feel our pain or care about our plight. Pain is just a warning signal(body mechanism) to protect us.
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I go for power walks where my pain is aroused to the point, where my body wants to stop, then I go another twenty minutes. This has many benefits physically and mentally. My pain does not stop me from moving my legs and walking through it mindfully.
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My own endorphins have helped kill the pain, also. My own body is learning to accept and adjust to this stress on its own. My ego knows pain does not stop me from exercising, so later it does not stop me from enjoying other activities.
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Pain is more of an inconvenience to me, it drains energy handling it all day long. Besides that my life does not have suffering but calm excitement and opportunity. I can accept my life with C-PTSD and chronic pain or suffer. I surrendered and escaped.
I recently ran across an article on handling and working through painful emotions. This is a long journey filled with anguish and years of therapy.
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My practice has first of all not judged emotions as painful in the first place. Why bring the cognitive ego to compare emotions and give them power.
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I have worked on my focus, so when these so called painful emotions arise, I can let them go! Without attention these emotions fade in minutes. Life is not for us to cognitively dissect into painful and pleasurable.
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I have found joy and happiness in these so called painful emotions. Pain from my perspective is just a warning signal, not a fire alert to escape at all costs. Stick around and view this so called pain from a distance.
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The moment you can accept painful without judging; healing is not far behind. practice and apply the breathing track.
Pain thoughts and the emotions we link together, impact our suffering or lack of suffering.
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Scenario: I have chronic pain everyday. The way I think, the attention I direct to it, the doubt and worry that surrounds it, and my relationship or attitude towards pain impacts life.
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I could dissociate into thinking how much worse am I going to be in five years? Will I be able to do things? My choice is to stay present in this moment, experiencing all that is before me. All that other crap fades when focused on living now.
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Pain thoughts just pass on through me now easily. Any random thought is dismissed by me immediately. Random thoughts do not impact my life any more. What a difference this had made.
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We can change our relationship with thoughts or pain.
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From what I have read, practiced and witnessed, healing does not bless spectators at all. No matter whose are or how smart we think we are, life can not be lived as a spectator. Well, not with any substance or happiness.
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What is holding you back from committing to 15 minutes a day? I have heard so many excuses for not taking action. It doesn’t matter if you have a reason, facts dictate you will not improve. *
C-PTSD grows with spectators until agoraphobia enters our space. Avoidance leads to this end. Do you avoid unpleasant and only go where you feel safe. chasing pleasure Ida prescription for disaster.
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What scares you from practicing a little focus daily?
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As I see it, we suffer if we stay still. The road to suffering and fear..
We must learn to take action, mental and physical with our pain. Being a former athlete, I did this as habit not knowing the value until much later.
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The body can move and inspire the mind through aerobic or physical achievement. No, not winning some race but pushing through the pain to move and excel. If you have lower spinal damage, an athletic wheelchair will solve this dilemma. We need to exert energy and try hard for us, no one else.
- Walking with my pain ignited, psychologically freed me from the fear of pain. It could not stop me from moving my legs or exercising. With each daily walk, the power pain exerted over me faded. Pain did not rule my life after six months of daily work.
We need to invest in healing and us by taking action. Sedentary life styles intensify pain.
- Any thought you give to pain has intensified it. Yes it is true! I have learned not to give my chronic pain time in my consciousness. Oh, pain is acknowledged and let go. My pain has made me adjust my activity, that is all.
When my conscious, cognitive side of the brain is functioning, happiness does not seem to be present. That is a personal observation of what I experience everyday. Being in pain does not stop my happiness or my living life. When I can endure and do not think, happiness flows for me.
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My pain has helped me heal my complex childhood PTSD. It taught me to understand my thoughts and not run from them. Exercise with your pain present and convince yourself you can not be stopped from living. It is true!!
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It is a mind game with a neutral opponent. Pain does not give a damn, it is emotionless.
A soldier with an amputated leg is described here in this excerpt of this article:
And he was in excruciating pain — in the leg he no longer had.
Dr. Jack Tsao, a Navy neurologist with the Uniform Services University, was looking for ways to help soldiers like Paupore. He remembered reading in graduate school a paper by Dr. V.S. Ramachandran that talked about an unusual treatment for amputees suffering “phantom limb pain,” using a simple $20 mirror.
The mirror tricks the brain into “seeing” the amputated leg, overriding mismatched nerve signals.
Here’s how it works: The patient sits on a flat surface with his or her remaining leg straight out and then puts a 6-foot mirror lengthwise facing the limb. The patient moves the leg, flexing it, and watches the movement in the mirror. The reflection creates the illusion of two legs moving together.
Paupore was one of the first to give it a try. At first, he was skeptical. When approached about joining a clinical trial at Walter Reed Army Medical Center to test Tsao’s theory, he declined. But sometimes his phantom pains were coming five to six times an hour and lasting up to a minute.
“I was laying in bed and it just, all of a sudden, it felt like I was getting shocked,” he said. “I called the nurse, ’cause I was like, ‘What’s going on?’ ” The nurse told him, “This is probably your phantom pain.”
Tsao explains it this way: “It’s the sensation that the limb is still present, and phantom pain in particular is the sensation that the limb is experiencing pain of some form.”
That pain is intense, and often medication brings very little relief. For Paupore, it was relentless.
“Chronic pain really is a disease of the central nervous system,” says Borsook. “As such, it is a disease that affects the sensory, emotional, motivational, cognitive and modulatory pathways. And the more we understand in particular the emotional pathways, the more we begin to understand that the traditional way we approach patients in pain may need to be revised.”
Borsook is convinced that psychiatrists, who have a good understanding of the brain changes caused by mental illness, can provide insights into how best to exploit them. Patients with depression or anxiety, for example, often report a higher incidence of chronic pain, and their discomfort rises as their depression worsens. In addition, the opioid-based response to pain loops in the same reward and motivational systems that reinforce behaviors like addiction. Treat the depression and you may break the entire pathological cycle.
Pain management is not the elimination of pain. The goal is to live your life fully. Pain is our friend.
Many say what? Pain keeps us from placing our hand into the hot flame of the stove, warns you that you have an injury and do not do more damage. Stop and repair it. Pain also has a mental component.
My pain has become much easier to live with because I bring it out and exert effort and power over it. I actually go for hard walks where my pain escalates until I want to stop. That is the time when I kick in my music, willpower and legs to move and walk for another 20 minutes. I use no pain killers now. I was taking eight plus a day. I live my life and some things cause pain but they are worth the hassle. You can gain more power over your pain in many ways.
