3 Ways to Manage Chronic Pain Without Medication |
Many of us find that we still have pain to deal with after a medical procedure or an injury heals. If our pain is fairly low, most of us do our best to adapt and ignore it as we go about our life. The alternatives are generally habit-forming medications with side effects that cannot be taken very long without risking needing more over time.
I became interested in the topic of pain management as I aged and my population of clients also aged. I found that many people's mental health problems were made worse by their chronic pain.
The euphemism is that we are experiencing "discomfort," not pain. For me, the dividing line between pain and discomfort is if it interferes with our ability to continue our normal level of activities and enjoy our life.
We are fortunate to live in a time when we have access through the internet to thousands of years of writing on ways to manage pain without medication. And many new books are being published that translate and adapt these ancient methods in ways that are suitable to modern life, such as Ryan Holiday's popular books on Stoicism, including The Obstacle Is the Way (2014), and Eckhart Tolle's........