How to work with pain
Connirae Andreas
Transformational Seminar Leader, author, and developer, with Andreas NLP. I teach new methods of "deeper change" which allow us to go beyond fixing problems.
21%, that is 51,6 million (!) adults, of the U.S. population experiences chronic pain. Headache pain and back pain are the most common types of chronic pain (source: U.S. Pain Foundation, 2021).
A friend recently asked me, “Can Wholeness Work help me deal with physical pain?” This question comes up a lot. And my short answer is “yes.” But the longer answer is more interesting.
We haven’t done official research on this yet, but in my experience so far, I’m finding that when someone uses Wholeness Work with pain, about half the time, the pain experience either lessens significantly or ‘melts’ away entirely within the first few sessions.?
A workshop participant chose to work with a chronic pain in her neck, for the second exercise in the training. At the end of the short exercise, her pain was gone. When I checked in with her a few months later, it was still gone. Another workshop participant told me that his peripheral neuropathy cleared up from this same exercise. However, it’s not always so simple. If the pain doesn’t clear up right away, we can use the advanced Wholeness Work formats to work with the same experience. Sometimes there are more layers that hold a symptom in place.
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So how can we explain what’s happening? Pain tends to start to melt already when we shift from the narrative around pain to the direct experience of it. By allowing the ‘I’ that is perceiving the sensations in our body that we call pain, to melt into the fullness of Awareness that is all around and through us, something magical can happen.?
One more thing is important to know…
While you’re focused on healing the pain with Wholeness Work, a deeper healing of your psyche is taking place. This means that you’re likely to experience more peace, more well-being, more love, in life, before (and whether or not) you get complete results in transforming the pain. For me personally, when I’ve experienced pain, Wholeness Work is the first thing I turn to. And it’s helped me a great deal.?
*As always, with any physical issue, be sure to check with your medical practitioner. There’s no guarantee that the pain will go away with this work, but try it and let me know how it goes. I’d really appreciate it if you’d? share your results with me on LinkedIn in a comment.??
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1 年Connirae Andreas thx for this great post! In a recent supervision session with Sebastian Mauritz we just recently discussed the applicability of TWW for pain relief…. ??????
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1 年Me operé la rodilla el a?o ′pasado. Wholeness Work me permitió pasar la cirugía con mucha tranquilidad, y hacer el proceso de rehabilitación con comodidad. Funciona, no es magia, funciona si se practica con regularidad.
A year ago I had a shoulder injury that really bothered me. I went to 2 really good physiotherapists, both with different approaches. They could not 'fix' it. It really frustrated me, since I'd been dealing for over half a year with it. So tried on a certain moment -as a bit of an experiment- Wholeness with it. Nothing to loose. The bizar thing was that the pain -and therefore the immobility- melted away for approx. 50%. This was one session, doing Wholeness with myself. From there I was able to use my shoulder again, had some massage and with a bit of time it is now 100% functional again. So yes, in my experience Wholeness is really worth trying with pain.
Advanced Creative Mind and Generative Change Coach, TA, Mindfulness, NLP Master Practitioner, The Wholeness Work at Excelling Yourself, KAP Oxford
1 年I definitely gained with Wholeness work, saw improvement in my back pain when I fell from the stairs. I didn't take any pain killers etc.