A healing step toward managing pain Pain can be is the most motivating force in our lives.
Weekend warriors often battle between playing the game and watching the game.
Chronic pain sufferers deal with the hurdle of basic daily tasks.
The drive to remove pain can consume our lives.
It is surprising how little we challenge our perspective of pain, given its significance in our lives, and it is encouraging how our lives might shift if we better understood our pain.
Our children have learned the healing power of a colorful band-aid, a gentle kiss, or a consolatory hug.
As adults, we can remember how dynamic our pain response can be.
Recent research has added much to our understanding of pain.
We should respect and value that pain is subjective and personal.
The amount of pain we feel is not equal to the amount of damage our body has received.
Any paper cut has argued that.
We will benefit from knowing pain should no longer be viewed as a cause-effect.
An MRI or X-ray may identify pathology but it cannot equate a cure or dictate the solution.
In the past, neurology has argued pain as our body's communication of nocioceptive signals.
Nocioception has been taught as equaling pain.
Our bodies are more complex than that--our brains are much more sophisticated than purely a display panel.
As David Butler, pain researcher and author focuses in his book, The Sensitive Nervous System, our brain is capable of ignoring nocioceptive input and experiencing no pain.
It is also capable of communicating pain when there is no input.
This means the pain that kept us from running or walking, pain that made it difficult to work, or even the pain that made us visit our doctor is not precisely what's happening to our body.
A doctor visit might look drastically different if we were aware of greater healing possibilities.
We might encourage our therapists and doctors for aid in educating us instead of fixing us.
Their knowledge might offer us opportunity for change, space for prevention, and responsibility for healing rather than the all or none approach of 'fix me or find someone who will'.
In the present, this offers us great hope.
We know pain can be a valuable tool, no longer a sworn enemy.
Your hurts no longer have to harm you.
Pain highlights that something's wrong-not always what it is.
We can use these signals for fear or for information.
We might purposefully encounter activities that reduce worry and anxiety.
This will prepare our bodies to expect relief and, in fact, experience relief.
Instead of fear and waiting, we seek empowerment.
We are enabled to reject the band-aid fix for an understanding that changes our lives.
Hugs always help too.
Weekend warriors often battle between playing the game and watching the game.
Chronic pain sufferers deal with the hurdle of basic daily tasks.
The drive to remove pain can consume our lives.
It is surprising how little we challenge our perspective of pain, given its significance in our lives, and it is encouraging how our lives might shift if we better understood our pain.
Our children have learned the healing power of a colorful band-aid, a gentle kiss, or a consolatory hug.
As adults, we can remember how dynamic our pain response can be.
Recent research has added much to our understanding of pain.
We should respect and value that pain is subjective and personal.
The amount of pain we feel is not equal to the amount of damage our body has received.
Any paper cut has argued that.
We will benefit from knowing pain should no longer be viewed as a cause-effect.
An MRI or X-ray may identify pathology but it cannot equate a cure or dictate the solution.
In the past, neurology has argued pain as our body's communication of nocioceptive signals.
Nocioception has been taught as equaling pain.
Our bodies are more complex than that--our brains are much more sophisticated than purely a display panel.
As David Butler, pain researcher and author focuses in his book, The Sensitive Nervous System, our brain is capable of ignoring nocioceptive input and experiencing no pain.
It is also capable of communicating pain when there is no input.
This means the pain that kept us from running or walking, pain that made it difficult to work, or even the pain that made us visit our doctor is not precisely what's happening to our body.
A doctor visit might look drastically different if we were aware of greater healing possibilities.
We might encourage our therapists and doctors for aid in educating us instead of fixing us.
Their knowledge might offer us opportunity for change, space for prevention, and responsibility for healing rather than the all or none approach of 'fix me or find someone who will'.
In the present, this offers us great hope.
We know pain can be a valuable tool, no longer a sworn enemy.
Your hurts no longer have to harm you.
Pain highlights that something's wrong-not always what it is.
We can use these signals for fear or for information.
We might purposefully encounter activities that reduce worry and anxiety.
This will prepare our bodies to expect relief and, in fact, experience relief.
Instead of fear and waiting, we seek empowerment.
We are enabled to reject the band-aid fix for an understanding that changes our lives.
Hugs always help too.
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