Belief

“If your body is screaming in pain, whether the pain is muscular contractions, anxiety, depression, asthma or arthritis, a first step in releasing the pain may be making the connection between your body pain and the cause. “Beliefs are physical. A thought held long enough and repeated enough becomes a belief. The belief then becomes biology.”

               Marilyn Van Derbur, Miss America By Day: Lessons Learned From Ultimate Betrayals And

                                                     Unconditional Love

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There are days like today

When everything hurts

And what doesn’t hurt doesn’t work

There are days when my whole body hurts

And my mind hurts

And my heart hurts

And my soul hurts

Oh!

Yes, I know how to manage and control it all

And manage it and control it I do

But it can still be a lonely place

Where you breathe and meditate

Where you walk, and take pictures

And just do what you care about

But long

For someone who seems to care

Someone to touch

And be touched by……

I know my pain is physical

And mental

And emotional

And spiritual

And it goes with me

Daily

Into the places I go

It goes with me as I do what I care about

And how my day goes,

Depends on how I think about things

And I chose

To think

I can

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My time is spent working with people who struggle with pain at

The Center for Optimal Living

Persistent Pain Program