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Introduction
Sample It! (119kb mp3)

Relaxation Skills
Sample It! (66kb mp3)
Sample It! (143kb mp3)

Relaxing Around the Pain
Sample It! (159kb mp3)

Relaxing Into and Through
the Pain

Thoughts Are Powerful
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Diverting Your Attention
Sample It! (124kb mp3)

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BOOKLET CONTENTS

General Information

• Relax
• Choices
• Important

Developing a Winning Lifestyle

• My Story
• What Do You Mean You Can’t Cure My Pain?
• Beyond Acceptance – My Journey Begins
• Getting In Touch With the Pain
• Response Control, Not Pain Control
• My Relationship With Pain
• What Do I Have To Gain?

A New Lifestyle Begins

• Introduction
• Relaxation Skills
• Relaxing Around The Pain
• Relaxing Into And Through The Pain

Living Skills

• Thoughts Are Powerful
• Diverting Your Attention

Examples Of Reactions To
Deep Relaxation

A MESSAGE FROM THE AUTHOR - excerpts from the booklet

Hi, my name is Andrea. We share something in common: experiences with chronic pain. Although your experience and mine are different, there is a bond that unites us. Struggling with pain is an often lonely and frustrating sequence of events. There are pain events and life events which often overlap. Many times the pain events seem to become all of life.

I found it was the everydayness of pain: the relentless, often illogical qualities that over and over continued to pull me out of the mainstream of life. I had read a few books on chronic pain, searched out many opinions and done the best I could at the time. Trapped in a sequential pain cycle, from which I felt helpless to extricate myself, the question I kept asking was, "How can I function in the world with the amount of pain I am in?" And as the days became longer and my suffering deepened, I knew I needed more.