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Feb 28 • 6 tweets • 3 min read
Can you tell the difference between what is happening right now rather than your interpretation of what is happening right now?

This is what happens when you practice contemplation.

#thepaincoach #pain

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There are commonly differences between the actual experience and the story we tell ourselves.

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This can cause problems. Particularly with persistent pain where people are often doing better than they think.

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The self critic and mismatch of expectations and reality keeps the focus on what is wrong rather than what is right.

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Training ourselves to see the bigger picture, to truly understand the circumstances and to see things as they really are is an important skill.

#thepaincoach #pain

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Feb 28
Pain is a lived experience that needs a person to live that experience.

A person is made on non-person.

Just as a car is made of non-car.

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A person emerges from many cells, atoms, molecules, processes that are not that person and don’t have person-ness.

A car has wheels, doors, engine bits, seats, none of which have the properties of a car. They are just those things.

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Of course we are much more than a car because we have an aliveness and consciousness—something it is like to be you. A stream of contents that forms that experience.

It is always a whole. Not a part.

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Feb 28
How do I understand your story?

How do I understand your world?

How do I stay in the room with you?

And see what you need behind what you say?

Are questions I ask myself.

#thepaincoach #pain

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How does my chatter go quiet? By being present. By using mindful breathing, and coming back to the present by breathing.

Then I can sit with the person, you, and be here to listen deeply.

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And outside of this time, living mindfully and by being present as often as I can strengthens this very presence.

#thepaincoach #pain #mindful

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Feb 27
We have beliefs about pain.

Most people have experienced pain (a rare few can’t) and have been told things about it.

The one thing the person knows is that it hurts and has a particular quality—the actual experience.

#thepaincoach #pain

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Then there’s the story. What we tell ourselves: What has happened? What it means? What’s the cause? The future? All are highly convincing yet often wrong.

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The misunderstanding of pain could be the most important reason why persistent pain has become a leading global health burden & why treatment outcomes are so poor.

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Feb 26
With chronic conditions such as persistent pain, fibromyalgia, CFS, ME and more recently Long Covid, people are still dismissed when their tests show nothing of note.

Cont… 👇 #LongCovid #MECFS #Fibromyalgia #pain #thepaincoach
The idea that a negative test (or tests) means that there is nothing wrong is ignoring the plain fact that there is something wrong.

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The person has just explained how they are feeling. Have they been heard? Many haven’t and that is unacceptable. Even some doctors have not been believed by other doctors!

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Feb 26
You won’t find the cause of your pain on a scan or a x-ray.

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Firstly, you cannot see pain on a scan or in the person. There is nothing to see.

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And just in case you are thinking brain patterns, you are seeing a brain pattern not pain. Those coloured pictures in studies are also created to show certain things that the authors want you to see, so read the method carefully…

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Feb 25
You want to grow as a therapist or clinician.

In particular, to help people who are suffering persistent pain, whatever their circumstances.

Different ages, backgrounds, circumstances, occupations.

Persistent pain affects people right across society.

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How well equipped are you to help them?

Do you understand pain sufficiently well to be able to help the person understand all their experiences?

Do you have the skills and toolbox to help them navigate the way forward to shape a positive future?

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Do you have self-awareness and an ability to be present as we must?

Do you know your own philosophy? Play to your strengths?

This is just some of the work we do together, cultivating your beginner’s mind and openness to learning so that you can grow and flourish.

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