Welcome to 2008! You can have less back pain at the end of this year than you do right now. What can you do to hurt less? What can you do to get more stuff done, to enjoy life more? What will you do?
I hate New Year’s resolutions, but I love using natural events in my life as metaphorical springboards for positive change. It seems a waste of a chance for growth not to use the turning of a new year as an opportunity to move forward in a positive way. Let's not make resolutions, let's make commitments, let's make a transformation in our personal pain paradigm. Let's take action. At this time, you can check yourself for the new year.
Are you being honest with yourself and those around you about your back pain and limitations? Are you being independent in seeing that your needs are met and that your life is progressing the way you want it to even with pain, or have you succumbed to physical and emotional dependence upon someone else? Are you exercising courage in challenging your back pain and all the idiosyncratic fears you have? Have you developed a Mastery Map for conquering your fears and pushing the envelope outward? Are you being creative in your approach to challenging pain, limitations, and life hassles, or have you surrendered to the familiar no matter how ineffective? Have you developed a plan for decreasing pain, increasing activity, and improving your quality of life? Do you want to develop a plan or are you settled into more of the same? Will you initiate the plan (s) you make for pain and suffering? Or will you stay on the couch? Will you persevere in the service of a carefully crafted plan, or will you succumb to “I do everything my doctors tell me to”?
There are no magic formulas for feeling better. Just a lot of risk and hard work. But it is possible and almost inevitable that you will feel better if you really try. If you do the same things this year you did last year, the best case is that you will feel the same at the end of the year. Take action. You can assess the efffectiveness of your pain coping. Take action. You can learn to decrease your pain. Take action. You can feel better. Take action. What are the three most important changes you know you should make to feel better? Take action.
We will be here for you all year. Go Blue.
Dr. Tim
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