Mind and Attitude
We are what we think and if we can change our mind we can change our pain. Our thoughts will determine our emotional reactions, our behaviors and actions, and ultimately our physical functioning. As Socrates states in 400 BC: “Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.” We need to think, wonder, and be wise in our thoughts.Thus, this lesson focuses on the thoughts and attitudes that we experience and how they impact chronic pain, health, and well-being. Protective factors include understanding whole problem, resilience and ability to rebound, self-efficacy and self-control, degree of accepting responsibility, compliance, realistic expectations, and active coping. Risk factors include ignorance of problem, low resilience, low self-efficacy/ control, denying responsibility, poor compliance, unrealistic expectations, and passive coping. | |
Goals to attain
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Reduce lifestyle risk factors
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Strengthen Protective factors
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