How to Cope With Pain: Physical and Mental

There's a reason people feel happy, when they feel healthy. Your mind, and body are connected--thus happy when they both feel good. Constant Pain can disrupt your pleasant life. To learn to cope with pain read this article.

Difficulty: Moderately Challenging

Instructions

Things You'll Need:

• OPEN MIND
• Few excercises

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   cope with pain
   
   1) have an open mind. Look at your situation from an "outside the box" approach and guide your self through your pain.

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   2) Stretch. Did you know the average individual who stretches 3x a week lives an average of 5 years longer? Stretching reminds you that your body is important--u need to keep it healthy.

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   3) Heat. Heat loosens up your muscles and allows the acidic build up in your muscle to release--allowing for less pain in the muscles. Heating should be done no more than 4x a week

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   4) Ice. Ice is actually more important than heat. Ice keeps down the swelling of muscles while providing you reduced pain due to the numbing. You should ice after physical activities--it will thus tighten the muscles and allow you to heal.

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   cope with pain
   
   5) massage. Massage helps relax the muscle and promotes circulation through the body.

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   6) Lastly--learn what causes your body to ache. If you know when your back, leg, etc.. flares up--then you can be prepared for the ice and heat after the activity. Right down when the injury occurs: time, place, most painful point, etc..

Tips & Warnings

• stretch
• heat
• ice
• massage
• limits
• This is really a life changing routine. Your body can and should feel great-