Relaxation: Mindfulness in Pain – naming sensations
Check-in: Gratitude, Communication observations
Sarno: The Tension Myositis Syndrome – another theory about the cause of some chronic pain
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy: Relapse Prevention(if time allows)
Medication check
Homework: Gratitude journal, Problem-Solving Exercises- work on one goal that you have been struggling with, and apply problem-solving strategies to help move this issue
Experiment with [...]
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 [...]
Relaxation: Mini-Relaxation ExercisesCheck-in: Gratitude, Forgiveness experiences
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy: Communication
Nutrition 102 – Supplements, herbs, etc.
Medication check
Homework: Gratitude journal, diaries, relaxation exercises
Track any difficult conversations, write down the key elements of one conversation (I said, he/she said, I said, etc.) and analyze according to the communication guidelines reviewed.
Calvin: Sometimes when I’m talking, my words can’t keep up [...]
Relaxation: Forgiveness meditation (Levine)
Check-in: Gratitude, Sleep observations
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy: Forgiveness – Luskin
Affirmations
Finish sleep talk
Medication check
Homework: Gratitude journal, Self-portrait if not done at the beginning
Experiment with Luskin methods with a small item needing forgiveness
Identify a useful affirmation for you and work with it
“The stupid neither forgive nor forget;
the naive forgive and forget;
the wise forgive but do [...]
Relaxation response: Tai chi
Check-in: Share an item from your gratitude journal
A cognitive distortion you noticed during the week or any negative automatic
thoughts you’ve noticed you are having, how you are countering them
Sleep
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Medication check
Handouts: Pain diaries, bimonthly feedback sheet
Homework: Continue to write in your pain dairies and gratitude journals, continue to spend time practicing a [...]
Relaxation response: Guided Imagery Inner Healer
Check-in: Share two items from your gratitude journal
What is one thing you are doing now that you were not when this program started.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy: Automatic Thoughts, Cognitive Distortions and their remedies
Medication check
Handouts: Record of Automatic thoughts, pain dairies, bimonthly feedback sheet
Homework: Fill out record of automatic thoughts, Sleep log [...]
Relaxation response: Mantra Meditation
Check-in:
1. Share one or two items from your gratitude journal
2. An example of pacing, adaptation, or delegation that you have tried and whether it made a difference
Exercise and Pain
Regroup and Review
The Time Pie
Using the body to change the mood
Medication check
Handouts: Stress Reduction through Mindfulness
Homework: Continue to write in your pain dairies, and [...]
Body Scan
Check-in: Goals/ Gratitude
Nutrition 101 continued - Things to cut down/remove from the diet
Pacing, Adaptation, and Delegation – reprise
Group Ergonomic and other adjustments - What other tips have members discovered?
Medication check
Handouts: List of Mantras/Poems/Thoughts for Mental Focus in Meditation
Homework: The Time Pie
(and continue relaxation techniques, pain diaries, gratitude journals)
. . . of all the things that finally [...]
Mindfulness is the practice of paying attention to what is happening to you from moment to moment. To be mindful, you must slow down, do one activity at a time, and bring your full awareness to both the activity at hand and to your inner experience of it. Mindfulness provides a potentially powerful antidote to [...]
Relaxation response: Chair yoga with Melissa Bukosky
Check-in: Share two items from your gratitude journal
Something you’ve learned from your nutrition log, pain diaries.
Nutrition 101 – Things to add/increase in the diet
Listening to the Body; Pacing/Adaptation/Delegation
Ergonomics Handout: suggestions for sitting, sleeping, reading, standing, etc. – read this and think about what else you have figured out that [...]