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Health & Fitness

Understanding What Pain is Really About

When I give talks to groups, I lead off by asking, “How do you know you are healthy? What do you base being healthy upon as opposed to being not healthy?” The most common answer is, “I feel good.”  In other words, people define their health status on whether or not they are experiencing pain.  And this is where the entire problem lies.  Pain is being viewed as an illness rather than for what it truly is – a mind/body communication.

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