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Dealing with Physical Pain

Sep 8, 2022
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ANECDOTE

Eve's Neck Pain Experience

  • Eve struggled with intense neck pain for years, which sometimes brought her to tears.
  • She found that worrying the pain would never end actually made the pain worse.
INSIGHT

Mind's Role in Pain Experience

  • Pain involves nerves sending signals to the brain but is deeply affected by how we think about it.
  • Negative thoughts about pain often worsen the experience and can lead to harmful actions to stop it.
INSIGHT

Mindfulness Enhances Healing

  • The mind strongly influences healing from pain both physically and emotionally.
  • Meditation and mindfulness have growing evidence for their role in pain management complementing medication and therapy.
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