HANDLING PAIN
Handling pain is easier then you think and it works on some of the techniques that I will teach you in this section.
Trust me it works and I suffered from whiplash and a chipped bone in my spine.
Get yourself nice and relaxed by clearing any thought process that you may have push them to one side because you can come back to this another time.
Use your breath to inhale and exhale to relax you.
If you are totally relaxed then you are ready to begin a meditative journey of managing your own pain.
• With your eyes closed breath into the pain. Imagine that you are sending healing soothing energy to the part that is inflamed or hurting.
• Talk to the pain. Ask it for information about itself? Why is it there? For example: What is its message for you? Ask it what you could do to make the pain better? And always make sure that you are truthful and listen to the correct answers. Pain is always a message.
• Try to feel the pain more. This sounds ridiculous but by doing so you will take the edge of it.
• Try to imagine what shape it is? Possibly what colour it is. By doing this your mind can have something else to work with and works wonders trust me.
• Keep watching and feeling the pain. As you pursue it, the shape etc will begin to get smaller. With a bit of luck it may even disappear entirely. (This is often the case with things such as headaches caused by stress and tension.)
• Now would be a good time to relax further and to sit there just listening to music. Your pain should feel minimal and think how you would feel if your body could feel like this all the time.
• Touch something like a ring or necklace anything that will remind you of this relaxed status.
• Start breathing in deeply and exhaling. Counting to 10 and visualising the numbers to bring you back into reality.
• Start wiggling your toes and open your eyes. Get your bearings for a while and take a big stretch.
You should feel the more you do this exercise. You will notice the benefits of natural pain relief. The Mind has a lot of influences on the way that we think. We can suffer from psychosomatic, in which if we tell ourselves that we have a pain. The pain can become worse due to your mind being reminded that it is there. What you can do to make yourself less aware of the pain is to tell yourself simply I don't feel any pain. You say this in the mirror 3 times. Do this everyday morning and night. This may sound weird but with the power of thought you can almost relieve symptoms of pain around your body no matter what it is.
Tracy.
