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How To Better Deal With Pain

October 10, 2022 by Wendy S

Pain is a fact of life – everyone is going to experience it in various forms throughout their lives, and this is something you can’t get around. However, it is possible to change how you approach it, so that you are going to make as much as possible out of the situation, and that is something that you should always be able to do. In this post, we are going to take a look at some of the better ways to deal with pain, so that you can reduce its impact on your life as much as possible.

Change Your Mindset

One of the most fundamental changes you can make is to change your relationship to pain as it occurs. If you are able to get to a place where you just see pain as the necessary information it is, useful data that you need to pay attention to, rather than some huge problem, then that in itself makes it a lot more bearable to deal with. Changing your mindset to this kind of approach is perfectly possible, even if it takes a while to achieve. It’s the kind of thing that you are going to want to think about working on right away.

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Alternative Treatments

You might also be interested in trying out a number of alternative treatments that are out there to be sought after. There are so many of these that you would be forgiven for forgetting about some of them, but there are some that have been known to help people out a lot in the past, and which are therefore quite worth thinking about. For instance, you might find that the kind of acupuncture services offered at www.qitcm.ca could be a good solution for your long-term pain in particular, and it’s definitely worth trying out at the very least.

Gentle Exercise

In general, when you have hurt something in your body, the best thing is not to just keep it still entirely, but to move it gently a little. We used to think that you should keep it still, but we now know that this is the worst thing to do. Instead, you should get some gentle exercise with the area, ensuring that you don’t push it too hard or too far, but generally making sure that you are engaging with it in a small way. That helps it to recover, and it actually works through the pain sooner too.

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Controlling The Breath

Your breath is one of the most powerful tools you have for managing pain too. If you are able to control your breathing as best as you can, it’s going to help you manage how your pain feels, so this is definitely something to think about. In particular, deep breaths are always important for overcoming your pain, so make sure to avoid shallow chest breathing when trying to get rid of pain in your body. That is a simple thing you can do which really makes a huge difference.

Filed Under: body mind spirit, Life Tagged With: health, manage, pain, pain management

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About Wendy S

+Wendy S (also known as @mapsgirl) is a mom to two daughters. They are the inspiration of this blog.Passionate about child passenger safety, Wendy has been a certified Car Seat Technician in Ontario, Canada since 2008.

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