Face the pain!
How to cope with both physical and emotional pain in your illness
What can I do when I suffer pain? It doesn’t make much difference if it is emotional or physical pain, you will have to work on it. You will have to face the pain! Only with the enemy looking at the eyes you can defeat him.
There are some basic steps that you can take to face the pain and we know it’s no easy task. But try to do the following:
1. Accept that you are sick. This is the first step to arrange yourself with your situation and open you up for any action to take. Anything will be easier as you once did this.
2. Forgive yourself. You might be responsible for your present situation and illness, as we revealed earlier. Nevertheless, you should not look back in anger but forgive yourself for your former behaviours and mindsets. It’s all about facing the future and make the respective changes.
3. Take a clear position with your situation. Do you want to devote on your illness or fight? The choice is all in your hands – but you should make a choice. From this will depend the development of your body and your mind!
4. Have a positive attitude facing the situation. It doesn’t help to drown in self-pity and pass your days with negative thinking.
5. Love yourself. Give yourself all possible love and allow to be loved (this point we consider extremely important in this process). If you can’t love yourself you nurture your illness! This was probably one of the major reasons for the outbreak of your disease. Only enemies strike your, good friends love you and make you stronger.
We can differentiate basically two different types of pain: physical and emotional pain. Many times both types are connected to each other, one emerging out of the other. As you face a physical pain, the emotional pain is following as a social and mental conflict within the patient. Strong emotional pain can also cause physical pain in consequence of psychosomatic reactions of the metabolism and even hormonal dysfunctions.
So let us now have a look at the physical and emotional pains.