When it comes to chronic pain many people’s go to strategy is to do anything and everything in their power to fight against it or run from it.

The thing is pain avoidance makes pain worse.

And fighting against pain just adds insult to injury.

Both strategies just add fuel to the fire of pain and make things worse.

Fight and flight are meant to be temporary responses to immediate danger and threat.

Yet many people suffering from chronic pain adapt these temporary responses as long term strategies.

And this just makes pain and illness more chronic.

While the pain is real, more times than not, it is not dangerous.

Reacting to pain in fight or flight fires the alarm signals in the brain that fuel chronic pain.

So reacting to your pain is what is making it worse.

And while pain is not your fault it is your responsibility to disarm the fear that fuels it.

This means you need a different strategy which I’m here to share with you today