PAIN CAN BE YOUR BEST FRIEND

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HOW TO DEAL WITH PAIN

We are the most pain conscious people on earth. TV commercials and the medical profession drums into us that all pain is evil and must be banished.

But what is pain, what causes it, and how should we, without panic, deal with it?

Pain is self-limiting ninety percent of the time.  It does not always  indicate poor health.  Most frequently, it is a result of tension, stress, worry, idleness, boredom, suppressed rage, poor sleep, overeating, frustration, bad diet, stale air, excessive drinking, smoking, and other abuses. 

Eliminate the abuses, and you eliminate the pain. 

You visit your doctor, sure that something terrible is about to happen to you.   Because his time is taken up with a waiting room of people who have nothing wrong except a temporary psychogenic ache, the doctor can’t give you adequate time and attention.

No organic cause for your pain is discovered, yet you feel insulted, rather than grateful.  You, after all, fear pain more than death itself.  Your indiscriminate and promiscuous use of pain medication makes you a psychologic cripple.

Despite all this, your doctor prescribes pain medication anyway.   Without correcting the condition that caused the pain, the pain is concealed.   Your body’s mechanism to alert your brain is deadened to the fact that something really may be wrong.  Without finding the basic cause of your pain, your body soon gets saturated and polluted with the doctor’s pain killing medications. 

It is hard to deal with pain rationally when you are illiterate about pain.  Pain is a way for the body to send a sign to the brain that something is wrong:  your attitude can greatly affect your pain.

PLACEBOS

Placebo, is an imitation medicine.  The word comes from the Latin,  “I shall please”.   It acts like a medication, alters your body chemistry, and mobilizes your body’s defenses to combat disease.  Since the pill has has shape, size, and can be held, the placebo satisfies your craving for visible answers and mechanisms.

One wonders how doctors who   prescribe useless and dangerous potions and  perform dangerous procedures, can maintain their positions of honor and respect over thousands of years.   You reach out for help from your doctors, believing you will be helped, and you are.   The smarter you are, the greater your benefit from the placebo. 

There have been more cures from placebos than from drugs. Placebos can change your body chemistry by activating your cerebral cortex and switching on your endocrine system.  if you are motivated and stimulated,  you actively participate in reversing your disease and disability. Miracle cures say something about the chemistry of the will to live.

You the patient see a prescription as an assurance of recovery.  It makes the doctor connect to you.  Thank God, now you can get rid of whatever is ailing you.  Drugs are not always needed, but the belief of recovery is very essential.  The doctor himself is the most powerful placebo and he makes the placebo work.

The mysterious brain can undergo biochemical changes essential to combat your disease, and allow the body to heal itself.

Take a get well attitude; see pain as a welcoming signal telling you something is wrong.  Your recovery depends on your attitude toward pain. See it as a friend that informs you what is wrong.   Realize that nine out of then times it will be gone.  Do not prevent your best friend "Pain"  from helping you discover your ailment.

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