• Embed Doc
  • Copy Link
  • Readcast
  • Collections
  • CommentGo Back
Download
 
Client: “
How can I possibly live without opioids and tolerate my pain?” 
(Fear o not beingable to handle the pain.)Remind your client that he/she is not alone. Many millions suer with chronic painand there are solutions or this problem that work better than using mind- and/ormood-altering drugs.Explain that in order or your client to discover pain relie, opioids need to bestopped or a while. Tis discontinuation ought to be done under the supervision o a knowledgeable physician. Aer being o o opioids or a period o time, the brainseems to “reset” and pain levels decrease.Explore with your client his/her belies about pain. Does he/she eel that pain mustbe taken away at all costs? Review how treatment o chronic pain usually resultsin opioid use and overuse, dependence, and addiction. Remind your client that inthe quest or pain relie and in his/her attempts to AVOID pain, more pain is oencreated.
Client:
“I don’t understand the diference between pain and sufering.” 
Explain that pain exists and is subject to interpretation by each individual and isbased on experience, upbringing, belie systems, mood, and physical conditions. Ourattitudes about pain dictate how each person suers. I pain is regarded as awul, theenemy—or the beast—we expend more energy to get away and will usually create amore painul experience. In other words, our brain creates worry, ear, anger, sadness,and stress based on our perceptions and this all makes the pain worse. Pain is aphysical experience; suering consists o the emotions surrounding the pain.Help the client understand that the key to healing begins with acceptance. Yourclient’s work is to allow the pain to exist, coexist i you will, with his/her being. Tiscan start simply with taking a deep breath. Have your client take a breath and thendescribe the experience in his/her body. Ten have him/her take another breath. Again, have him/her describethe experience while noticing how the pain changes.Have the client do a First Step on the pain and work onsurrender and acceptance.
Client:
“I don’t want to move because it hurts.” 
Help your client see that beginning to exercise throughthe soreness will allow the body’s natural clearancesystem to help get rid o toxins.•••••••
 A Day without Pain
Fast Clinical Tips
$14.95 US6 x 9, 200 pages, trade paper ISBN 13: 978-0-9799869-5-6ISBN 10: 0-9799869-5-8
(continued on other side)
of 00

Leave a Comment

You must be to leave a comment.
Submit
Characters: ...
You must be to leave a comment.
Submit
Characters: ...