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Feb 20 4 tweets 4 min read
Sunday self care.

What do you do to care for yourself?

Many people struggle with this, caring for everyone else, but not themselves.

Familiar?

Cont…

#thepaincoach #pain #compassion
To look after and care for others in the way you want to, you must care for yourself.

Thich Nhat Hanh: “When we feed and support our own happiness, we are nourishing our ability to love.”

#thepaincoach #pain #compassion

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What can you do today to self-care?

Even just for a few moments.

* breathe
* have a bath
* go for a walk in nature
* tend to your garden
* make tea
* listen to music
* read a book

What else?

#thepaincoach #pain #compassion

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Pain brings the body to the forefront of awareness. The absolute focus sometimes.

Posing the question, what do I need to do?

This is where people often get stuck. What should I do?

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Often ranging from having too high expectations of oneself in the circumstances, and over-doing things, to complete avoidance. Neither result in success over time.

And what we want is success over time.

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Setting expectations in line with reality is key.

A moment to moment art form that requires acknowledgment and acceptance of the current circumstances.

This is easier sometimes than others, and in itself a practice.

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The beliefs you have about your pain, including the causes, are shaping your very experience of pain.

And then what you do, based on your beliefs about your ability to deal with it.

This is why understanding your pain is so important.

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* pain is a perception shaped by many factors: past experiences, beliefs, mood, context, environment, expectations, attention.

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* pain experiences are poorly related to tissue/body state

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Change is happening all the time, despite how things may appear.

When you examine your own experience closely, you realise this is the truth.

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Life is only possible because of change. Or impermanence.

Something that is the same is what we tell ourselves. The story.

Do you hear yourself saying: it’s the same.

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Even this changes. Because each time you hear it, you have changed.

Pay close attention to your breath. The movement of your body. Change.

Pay attention to sounds. Change.

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Persistent pain.

Where does it start to go wrong?

When the pain is reduced to a body part rather than seeing a whole person who is suffering.

#thepaincoach #pain

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For example, blaming a small joint in the neck for a person’s woes.

Instead of seeing them as a thinking, feeling human being with hopes, dreams, strengths, and difficulties.

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When the pain is reduced in such a way, often the person is heading down the wrong route—not their fault.

Expectations are in the wrong place as they think that some treatment to that small part of their body will solve the pain problem. Great if it does. Often is doesn’t.

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Menopause and persistent pain have some similarities in the journey.

This is aside from the fact that a women going through menopause can experience persistent pain.

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I spend time asking about people’s experiences and listening to what they tell me, before helping them make sense of it.

Many talk about how they have described different symptoms that are pigeon-holed rather than seen as a person suffering.

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‘I kept telling them, but they took no notice’

‘For years I was told it was anxiety and depression’

‘I had three different symptoms, but was told I could only be seen for one’

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The whole person approach to pain means the person is seen first, not a body part, or a brain or anything else that is less than the whole.

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It means your story matters. Your lived experience is what we work with, together. To shape a positive future.
It means we think about any investigations and scientific knowledge and bring them in to explain your lived experience. That goes for tests that show nothing in particular, a common finding. But now what? You still suffer. Why? And what can you do?
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