How to Reduce Your Chronic Pain

(Re-) Learning to be patient, tolerate frustration and cope are critical factors to imorove your fortitude and reduce your chronic pain. I review 14 ways to improve your skills in coping.

Having the capacity to bounce back from obstacles will help you reduce your chronic paIn over time. In this podcast, I review critical ways to improve your resilience. These include reflecting on how positive role models you know who have overcome relapses or upsets. As well, reflect on your past experiences that induced temporary relapses. Know your triggers that can help you feel empowrered to avoid future ones.

In this podcast, I address specific ways to increase your optmism to reduce your chronic pain. I emphasize the work of Marton Seligman and the extent to which optimists can have reduced pain levels.

In this podcast, I review the critical ways to enhance those higher-level unctions of the pre-frontal cortex of the brain-Problem solving, Self-monitoring and Cognitive Flexibility

In this podcast, I rwiw how you can improve your ratings in distraction and by using mindfulness meditation strategies. Both skills are excellent for for chronic physical pain and anxiety-related conditions.

In this podcast, I focus on ways to enhance the next two Fortitude Skills. Learn ways to be assertive to stand up for your rights. As well, exercise as much as you can. Try to avoid any rationalizations that may get on the way.

In this podcast, I focus on two of the 17 fortitude skills to lower your pain levels- Self-care and self-efficacy.

How you think relates to how much pain you have. In this podcast, I review the common, negative thoughts that mpact how you feel.

Letting go of anger while improving your happiness daily contribute to reducing your chronic pain over time. Typically, your anger is a defense against other, more vulnerable feelings. Improving your happiness simply by being grateful or doing acts of kindness can transform your pain into relief.

In this podcast, I review specific ways to reduce feelings of depression and anxiety that contributes to your chronic (physical) pain

In this podcast, I review strategies for you to reframe life stressors as challenges or opportunities to grow rather than being catastrophes. You will learn to prioritize your stressors, rely on your resilience and support systems to help you get through these challenges.

Here, I review the major ways you can choose to reduce your chronic pain. Remember that what may work for you may not work for someone else because pain is multi-dimensional and subjective.

There are two major factors to reducing your chronic pain; namely, pain reduction and pain maintenance. Know your triggers that can induce relapses over time.

In a manner similar to the standard question, "What is your (physical) pain level on a scale of 1-10?", you can further identify your subjective levels of pain from life stressors, negative emotions, negative thoughts and a lack of fortitude.

Here I describe what constitutes a pain management lifestyle and the options you have to defend against or acknowldge the need to change how you are dealing with your chronic pain. If you can move to acknowledging the need to change the ways that are not helpful, then you will need to grieve or mourn how you were then move into perceiving pain as a challenge than a catastrophe.

In this segment, I review the factors that identify chronic versus acute pain. I reframe pain as emanating from multiple sources and as being "ongoing, intermittent life challenges." Consequently, no one is free from experiencing pain.

In this segment, I address the critical importance of action, not thinking or worrying or catastrophizing about your pain. In addition, the maintenance stage is a lifelong commitment to keeping your pain at low levels amd your fortirude at high levelsby knowing the signals that can induce relapses.

In this podcast, you will learn the specific ways to move from preparing for change to 100% commitment to acting on ways to reduce your chronic pain.

This episode describes the motivation to change model by J.Prochaska and C. DiClemente. I then review the first stage of change; the pre-contemplation or denial stage.

Grieving or mourning the loss of how you were before having chronic pain is a critical stage to work through in order to reframe chronic pain as a challenge and opportunity to become resilient.

In this podcast, I describe facts 4, 5 and 6 about chronic pain. Fact#4- Pain is multi-dimensional. Fact #5-You may always have chronic pain. Fact #6-Some coping strategies are better than others.

Fact #2: Each person with chronic pain is different.
Ft act #3: Pain is multi-dimensional.

Learn how your chronic pain is not new-the intensity of the pain is.