PainCornerStore: Do Something UnSelfish Especially While You're In Pain

      One of the most difficult things I have found to do is to really think about others while I have been fighting this battle against my chronic pain.  I mean, I have thought about others and I do think about them but the level of thought, the effort that I put into that thought, hasn't been what I believe I have put into it in the past.  That doesn't mean that I care any less about others, it's just the sheer amount of mental and physical energy it's taken for me to tolerate the changes and the pain that my body is enduring.  I recognized that fact and it shook me to think that I was shortchanging my wife and my children; that I wasn't doing as good a job being dad, hubby, son, brother, friend, neighbor and co-worker as I could have been doing.  I was so busy working on finding strength that I was overlooking one of the greatest sources of strength there is; those around us who care about us.

I quickly made note of the fact that when looking for resources to help tolerate chronic pain and ease pain flareups, looking "under our nose" should be the first place we look.  I think you'd be surprised how much  strength you can gain from knowing that your family, friends and associates are praying for you and wishing you better days.  The freedom that you gain mentally is like taking a hundred pound weight off of your chest.  Knowing that the ones you care about have a level of real understanding of your struggle with chronic pain and having them react in a manner to help you tolerate each day better and to recover from flareups faster is an effective component in my multimodal chronic pain toleration system.  While you are improving your multimodal chronic pain toleration system and working on solutions to help you live a healthier, happier, less pain filled lifestyle, don't forget to reward those around you for their support.  They might tell you that you don't owe them anything because they are doing it out of love but go ahead and get them something anyway.  It will make you feel better knowing they have a material sign of how grateful you are for their support and love and deep down inside they will actually like that in the midst of your struggle you cared enough about them to say thanks.  And that, my fellow multimodal system members, is a very unselfish act on your part.

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Excerpt taken from Neale Donald Walsch's brand new book:
When Everything Changes, Change Everything
http://www.wheneverythingchanges.com/

Everything takes place in the physical world in a "moment" that we call "time."  A bunch of these moments can be charted on a clock.  It may help you to think of your soul as moving through this imaginary moment, working "around the clock" to bring you the richest experience of Who You Really Are.

Each "hour" on the cosmic clock you move one step away from Being, in order that you may return there, knowing/experiencing it again.  By the process described in the steps you see on this Time Clock, you create and recreate yourself anew as "time" passes.  Finally, you reach "the eleventh hour."  This is when the way in which you "passed the time of day" plays it effect. 

Okay now, follow the "clock" with me ... if you do not remember the perspective with which you began (that is, the perspective of the soul, from the place of pure being), you could hold a perception that produces a belief that results in a behavior that manifests an event that creates data that leads to a truth that generates a thought that outpours an emotion that culminates in an experience that causes you to wind up at the eleventh hour in a Distorted Reality........READ THE REST HERE

As a dental hygienist, I had a family come in one day for cleanings. By the time I was ready for the father, he informed me I had a lot to live up to. His six-year-old daughter kept commenting that a "very smart lady" was cleaning their teeth today. The father said she kept going on about my intelligence until he finally had to ask what she was basing her opinion on. The little girl replied, "I heard people in here call her the Dental High Genius."   (*courtesy of Reader's Digest*) Humor Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment. If you're riding ahead of the herd, take a look back every now and then to make sure it's still there. Never slap a man who's chewing tobacco. Never kick a cow chip on a hot day. There are two theories to arguing with a woman... neither works. Never miss a good chance to shut up. Always drink upstream from the herd. If you find yourself in a hole, stop digging.

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