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Could Your Personality Be Contributing To Your Chronic Pain?

Almost a year ago, I developed lower back pain. At first I thought I had pulled a muscle ducking under a tree branch while out running with a friend.

I took it easy for a few days and the pain seemed to subside. But then it came back, and with a vengeance. It remained with me on and off for a year and was often so severe that I had to hold onto pieces of furniture to support myself when rising from a chair or my bed, or when brushing my teeth.

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The Link Between The Nocebo Effect And Chronic Pain

We’ve all been there some time or other: we get injured or start experiencing some form of pain, and the people around us will all come up with their own suggestions, sometimes even with a full retelling of their own painful experience;

“Don’t carry too much weight!”, “Be careful at the gym!”, “it took very long to get better after I got that”, or, the worst of the worst: “Your pain might be chronic”.

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Mind-Body Tools Can Change Your Brain

Have you noticed in traditional approaches to change that the focus is often on the past and the problem, rather than effectively providing tools and techniques to help you move forward?

We are huge advocates for a whole-self, holistic, mind-body approach that focuses on our clients life NOW and a future without the problem, by getting to the root cause of their issues and creating shifts from the inside out.

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What Science Says We Need To Be Happy

Research shows that consistently grateful people are happier, more energetic, more hopeful, more helpful, more empathic, more spiritual, more forgiving, and less materialistic. They’re also less likely to be depressed, anxious, lonely, envious, neurotic, or sick.

In one study, a group of participants were asked to name five things they were grateful for every day, while another group was asked to list five things that annoyed them. Those expressing gratitude were not only happier and more optimistic; they reported fewer physical symptoms (such as headache, cough, nausea, or acne).

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Why Your Brain Is The Key To Change

Change of any kind is often done by consciously focusing on doing something different. But that’s not so easy when you’re trying to make your brain do something it’s not familiar with.

This is why understanding and working with your brain is the key to change – without getting your brain on board and working with you, change will be extremely hard.

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What Is Whole Person Self-Care?

How do you approach self-care?

For so many people taking care of themselves may include sweating it out at the gym 3 times a week, having a pampering massage once a month, or taking a morning walk every day.

These are wonderful practises to take care of your physical body, but what about the rest of you?

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