STAY POSITIVE! How not to manage your pain and trauma...

STAY POSITIVE! How not to manage your pain and trauma…

Jul 24, 2019 - Craniosacral Therapy

– So, have you ever had a pain,

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been anxious, been stressed, been depressed,

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and just been told to just stay positive, or be grateful?

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Now, being grateful is a really awesome thing.

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I do a gratitude journal.

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I’m really grateful for lots of things in my life.

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But I think that positivity

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and happiness is just a rubbish metric,

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and there’s a lot of writers who agree with this idea.

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If you’re constantly pushing this positivity,

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what you’re doing is you’re actually pushing

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the crap further down into you,

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and you just end up full of crap, basically.

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You know, it’s often okay to feel pain.

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And what we really hope to do

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is to really simmer that pain,

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that tissue pain in a really healthy way,

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and identify, you know, what’s an okay pain,

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what’s not an okay pain.

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Often, these things can be a trigger

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that you need to do something else.

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Maybe you need to deal with your inflammation,

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maybe you need to do some more self-care activities.

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You know, it’s part of that whole process.

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But I guess at Wellness and Body,

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we’re really into not minimizing your pain.

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We aren’t into a constant stay positive type of thing.

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We really endeavor to be empathetic,

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and you know, I guess just realizing

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that you’re not in the other person’s shoes.

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But we have seen so much stuff,

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in terms of injuries, and things like tissue trauma,

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that is the result of emotional trauma, as well.

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That really, we’re in a great position

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to have that empathy, and to educate,

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and to do all those things.

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But, you know, I think minimizing people’s pain,

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or minimizing people’s emotional trauma

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is really upsetting.

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And yeah, the stay positive metric.

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Probably not the greatest.

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But I’d love your thoughts.

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