Welcome to the current newsletter issue of
Advances in Medicine (AIM)- Take AIM against pain.
Feel free to send me an e-mail with your own thoughts
and experiences. Email: timsams@mypainreliefdoc.com.
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Welcome to 2007! You can have less pain at the end of this year
than you do right now. What can you do to hurt less? What can
you do to get more stuff done, and to enjoy life more? What
will you do?
I hate New Year's resolutions, but I love using natural events
in my life as metaphorical springboards for positive change. It
seems a waste of a chance for growth not to use the turning of
a new year as an opportunity to move forward in a positive way.
In ABC's of Pain Relief and Treatment: Advances, Breakthroughs,
and Choices, I identified a pain-resistant personality as
choosing to be honest, independent, courageous, and creative,
while employing planning, initiative, and perseverance. At this
time, you can check yourself for the New Year.
Are you being honest with yourself and those around you about
your pain and limitations?
Are you being independent in seeing that your needs are met and
that your life is progressing the way you want it to even with
pain, or have you succumbed to physical and emotional
dependence upon someone else?
Are you exercising courage in challenging your pain and all the
idiosyncratic fears you have? Have you developed a Mastery Map
for conquering your fears and pushing the envelope outward?
Are you being creative in your approach to challenging pain,
limitations, and life hassles? Or, have you surrendered to the
familiar no-matter-how-ineffective?
Have you developed a plan for decreasing pain, increasing
activity, and improving your quality of life? Do you want to
develop a plan, or have you settled into doing more of the
same?
Will you initiate the plan(s) you make for pain and suffering?
Or, will you stay on the couch?
Will you persevere in the service of a carefully crafted plan,
or will you succumb to "I do everything my doctors tell me to?"
There are no magic formulas for feeling better-just a lot of
risk and hard work. However, it is possible and almost
inevitable that you will feel better if you really try.
MyPainReliefDoc.com is here to help you all year with daily
tips and our biweekly newsletter. You can discover specific
weaknesses in pain coping by taking the Personal Pain Paradigm Test, or
you can arrange a brief phone consultation with Dr. Tim. You can
purchase supplements. You can access prescription topical gels for your
specific condition. Read the "ABC's of Pain Relief and
Treatment" or another pain book. Establish a plan for this year
with your physician.
If you do the same things this year that you did last year, the
best case is that you will feel the same at the end of the
year. Take action. Is that what you want, to feel the same? Take
action. You can feel better. Take action. What are the three
most important changes you know you should make to feel better?
Take action.
We will be here for you all year. Please feel free to suggest
newsletter topics for 2007.
Good light,
Dr. Tim
My Pain Relief Doc
http://www.mypainreliefdoc.com
Copyright 2007. Dr. Tim Sams and My Pain Relief Doc.
All rights reserved. http://www.mypainreliefdoc.com
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