YOU CAN Relieve Your Pain

With this first entry into my blog, I’d like to discuss the issue of “It’s all in your head� as they say, as one of the causes of pain.

Let me first tell you, if you haven’t already received the message from the rest of the site, I truly am committed to this mission of helping folks with their pain issues wherever my expertise can help. I know that I can’t help everyone and neither can any other health care practitioner. Medicine is as much an art form as dealing with the mind but I just know that there are millions of people out there that are suffering needlessly and I am pushed by a greater being to find them. I personally believe in one God and know that spirituality can play an important part in relieving pain. But I digress…

“It’s all in your head� has now become a sort of chastisement. When you have a worrying thought and express it, it seems there’s almost always a person around who will throw that statement at you with a negative tone attached. It’s like we should feel guilty for even expressing our concern or something. Years of hearing this or similar messages has conditioned many of us to believe that seeking help with a mental professional somehow makes us less of a human. The term “headshrinkers� or “shrink� comes to mind and they are definitely not positive Internal Representations (IRs).

Fast forwarding to your pain now. I know of some folks that actually feel better about having their pain when a doctor tells them that their pain is a “genetic� or “structural defect� in the body. You see, this gives them the permission to think or say “I’m glad it’s not in my head.�

That’s how powerful the chastisement has been working on us. In other words, it’s OK to be in pain from a medical condition, but it’s not ok to be in pain from a mental or emotional condition. Now, I’m here to tell you right now, that there is no separation. The mind and body are far too interlinked to be able to keep them separate in dealing with any problems we might have.

If you have those thoughts of fear of the unknown inside your mind, my first thought would be to ask: “So how is that working for you now?� to quote from Dr. Phil, a popular TV psychologist. I mean, c’mon, do you want to get rid of your pain or not? If the answer is yes and you’ve already been to the doctors and still have debilitating pains, then you owe it to yourself to clear your old belief system so that you can do something different; so that you can move beyond your fears and doubts and cultural programming. If you are firmly entrenched in this old way of thinking, let me give you a new paradigm for a belief system.

Open your mind to possibility. Let go of your fear of letting go of your pain. Call me and we’ll just talk for a bit.