Imagery: Using Healing Colors

Check-in:
1. Gratitude.
2. Reactions to Sarno
3. Goals:
a. A goal you’ve set for yourself
b. One or some of your emotional hooks that get in the way of making changes
c. Cognitive distortion(s) connected to these hooks
d. Any obstacle you’ve encountered in achieving the goal
e. Some of the solutions you’ve come up with in regards to these obstacles.

Problem-solving

Specific syndromes - fibromyalgia, migraine, neuropathy, pancreatitis

Medication check

Handouts: Pain dairies, bimonthly feedback sheet. Healing Plan to be reviewed next time.

Homework: Continue to practice what you’ve learned from the program, continue to write in your pain dairies, and gratitude journals, continue to spend time practicing a relaxation response, exercise daily, read and fill in your handouts.

The Serenity Prayer
God grant me the serenity
to accept the things I cannot change;
courage to change the things I can;
and wisdom to know the difference.
Living one day at a time;
Enjoying one moment at a time;
Accepting hardships as the pathway to peace
-Reinhold Niebuhr

The Well of Grief

Those who will not slip beneath
the still surface on the well of grief

turning downward through its black water
to the place we cannot breath

will never know the source from which we drink, the secret water, cold and clear,

nor find the darkness glimmering
the small round coins
thrown by those who wished for
something else.
- David White

 Session 14