“Change your thoughts and you change your world.”
– Norman Vincent Peale
Using the Mind “Take the Hurt Out of Pain”
Whatever medical condition a person faces, using the mind is the fundamental basis for managing that condition. Learning to use one’s mind to affect change and improve one’s condition, reduce suffering, pain and conflict can be the most important step towards health and recovery. To this goal, Accurate Clinic offers our patients instruction in the use of several tools to facilitate positive change (see links below):
Cognitive Behavior Training (CBT) is a discipline directed at helping people understand more about how their thoughts, memories and beliefs shape or control their anxieties, their pains, their fears, and with this understanding learn simple methods of reshaping their experience.
The actual experience of pain differs from individual to individual and even from time to time by the same individual. The extent to which pain “hurts” is actually something that can be modified. By working with our trained hypnosis therapist, one can learn many successful techniques of self-hypnosis that can truly reduce the hurt and suffering associated with pain. In addition, on can learn to facilitate behavior change and improve one’s mood and well-being.
Meditation is a practice in which an individual trains their mind and induces a state of consciousness in which the person focuses their attention on one single item, thought or activity.
Mindful exercises are activities, including meditation, that constitute directed, focused thought processing towards relaxing, de-stressing or otherwise resulting in a calming state of mind. Mindfulness meditation has been defined as “the awareness that emerges by way of paying attention on purpose, in the present moment, and nonjudgmentally to the unfolding of experience moment by moment,” or as “the effort to intentionally pay attention, nonjudgmentally, to present-moment experience and sustain this attention over time.”
Pain Management Coaches (PMC) partner with pain patients seeking self-directed, lasting changes which promote health, enhance well-being and reduce the negative impact of pain on one’s life.
Resources:
- www.academyofct.org
References:
- Neuroplasticity
- Raising Pain Tolerance Using Guided Imagery
Books:
- “Your Brain on Pain” by Michael Moskowitz MD
Guided Imagery Recordings:
- “Your Brain on Pain” by Michael Moskowitz MD
Emphasis on Education
Accurate Clinic promotes patient education as the foundation of it’s medical care. In Dr. Ehlenberger’s integrative approach to patient care, including conventional and complementary and alternative medical (CAM) treatments, he may encourage or provide advice about the use of supplements. However, the specifics of choice of supplement, dosing and duration of treatment should be individualized through discussion with Dr. Ehlenberger. The following information and reference articles are presented to provide the reader with some of the latest research to facilitate evidence-based, informed decisions regarding the use of conventional as well as CAM treatments.
For medical-legal reasons, access to these links is limited to patients enrolled in an Accurate Clinic medical program.
Should you wish more information regarding any of the subjects listed – or not listed – here, please contact Dr. Ehlenberger. He has literally thousands of published articles to share on hundreds of topics associated with pain management, weight loss, nutrition, addiction recovery and emergency medicine. It would take years for you to read them, as it did him.
For more information, please contact Accurate Clinic.
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