Stuck in your story? Do you let an old painful event hold you back? Research has shown that no matter how good our memory is. It isn’t strong enough to recall old events or trauma in full detail. So what are we actually remembering? More important when we think about or tell some one…
All posts in October 2016
When pills and Ignoring the pain don’t work
Do you just keep pushing no matter what? After your accident or the emotional jolt you experienced, the pain is draining you. You are clear about one thing. You just want the pain to be gone. BUT you keep pushing, feeling wired and tired, trying to take care of family, work, exercise etc until…?…
Pain – happiness link?
Is happiness peeking out from under your pain? Guiding you from pain to your happiness center? Guide to Pain Relief Experiment: Imagine you are seeing the world through the eyes of the child in the picture. What is this child peeking at? Look out at the world through his eyes. What does he see? How…
Smile to relax and relieve your pain
The best way to flex your muscles is to smile. It triggers these feel good chemicals in the body. Endorphins help to lift your spirits and relieve stress/pain. The “Duchenne smile (picture at the right ) helps reduce pain signals from the brain to the body and simultaneously let a warm happy feeling wash over…
Change your focus and your pain?
Focus is the first step to get through pain. The brain is such an amazing programmable computer. Whatever the brain focuses is on tells the thinking and emotional systems of the brain what messages to send to the body. So, if you focus on pain the pain increases. Experiment: Look at the image of the…