Chronic Pain and Courage

Chronic Pain and Courage

One of the most important challenges that you can experience in your life is dealing with chronic pain, if you ever challenged to experience this problem.   When somebody starts experiencing chronic pain one of the first things they also experience is fear.  This fear can be a huge problem.   The fear then becomes it’s own problem and literally magnifies the pain.   Fear becomes paralyzing.

Courage is “doing the right thing in spite of fear”.    Many people think that a courageous person is one without fear.   Actually courage is “doing the right thing in spite of or in the face of fear”.   When somebody is dealing with chronic pain and experiences fear that begins to disable that person’s life, courage calls that person to go against the flow.  Courage leads the person with chronic pain to go against what fear is telling the person to do.   Growing from the point of fear to the point of courage is truly “growing”.   This person will become a more complete and whole person---- is spite of their chronic pain!

Perhaps it’s time to ask: what is Chronic Pain anyway?

Well, we all know what pain is.   But what is chronic pain?    Well the purpose of pain is to help us avoid bad things happening to our body.  When an injury happens, things hurt.  That’s the way it’s supposed to be.  That is called “acute pain”.  

Chronic pain, however, is pain that lasts well after the 6 week time that it should normally take for an injury to get better.   Some would say that you can’t call it chronic pain until it has lasted for 3 months.   Either way the pain is lasting well after the injury.

There are many medical strategies to try to help deal with chronic pain and it is absolutely crucial that anybody who has chronic pain seek medical attention to figure out why they have it and what can be done about it.   Nobody--- and I repeat nobody--- should ever deal with their chronic pain using alternative strategies until they have had a thorough evaluation.  

Unfortunately for many people, after the evaluation there is the reality that their chronic pain is still with them.   It just stays and stays and stays.   In that case it becomes very reasonable to pursue alternative strategies as long as they are safe.  

I have discovered that a very powerful nutrient grown right in the Sonoran Desert called “betalains” may help to decrease chronic pain.   At least that’s been the experience of some people who have been fortunate enough to get ahold of this nutrient.

Fortunately this nutrient can now be obtained through a whole food in drink form that actually tastes good.  You can read the story about this very powerful nutrient and how it might help you or someone you love deal with chronic pain at this site.