Relaxation response: Imagery with a Pain Object

Check-in:
1. Share item from your gratitude journal
2. Reflections on communication: what did you discover about your thoughts and feelings on working with communication these past two weeks?

Hormones and pain

Problem-Solving, Coping Strategies

Medication check

Handouts: Pain dairies, bimonthly feedback sheet, Hormones and Pain
Homework: Continue to write in your pain dairies, and gratitude journals, continue to spend time practicing a relaxation response daily, exercise at least 3 days a week.
Complete the TMS questionnaire

 The problem is not that there are problems. The problem is expecting otherwise and thinking that having problems is a problem.
-Theodore Rubin

I’ve learned that next to the atomic bomb, the greatest danger is defeatism, despair, and inadequate awareness of what human beings possess. I feel that any problem that can be defined is capable of being resolved. Out of this has come my conviction that no man knows enough to be a pessimist.
-Norman Cousins

Link to Session 12