Chronic Pain
Although promises are made and have been made for decades, western medicine
has no valid answer to the problem of chronic pain. In so called ‘pain
clinics’, only 10% of the patients can really be helped.
From the viewpoint of autosuggestion, fighting pain can be seen as fighting
the self. This is a battle that is bound to be lost, in that the result
is even more pain than before. With the pain symptom, the subconscious
wants to communicate to the person that there is a huge need for taking
care and giving attention to it. The pain forces the person to give this
kind of attention. Almost invariably, chronic pain appears after other
signs have been ignored.
Pain is very much influenced by cognitions and emotions. Think of an
acute pain that is not felt when the person is in a state of danger and
needs quick decision and action taking. This is an example of a cognitive
strategy that is spontaneously used. The principle of this particular
strategy is: “leading away attention from the pain”, i.e.
communicating to the subconscious that the pain is not that important
and in the best case, that its goal will be taken care of in other ways.
One can learn and practice this strategy in an explicit manner and take
advantage of it in a state of chronic pain, in combination or not with
medication o other cognitive strategies.
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