Joanne Lee Smith says you don't need meditation or journaling to heal from chronic pain. Pick whatever actually feels relaxing to you. The goal is calming your brain's overactive danger alarm, which mistakes harmless sensations for threats.
So remember, there's no worries about you're not going to get well if you don't meditate, or you're never going to recover because you've not been journaling. Like, it's just whatever's going to be your unique process, and it's just a case of doing the things that feel good to you, that you feel relaxed doing, because again, we're just wanting to reduce the amount of danger that the brain is perceiving. Because remember, the brain is perceiving things as dangerous that are not really dangerous, especially for those of us that have developed chronic pain and chronic symptoms. Um, then it's, it's even more switched on and more looking for danger. Um, if you've been unfortunate enough to be in numerous accidents, or if you've been unfortunate enough to have emotional traumas in life, all of these things. If you've been, if you've got the personality style where you're very harsh and critical of yourself and judgmental of yourself and internal, lots of thoughts of not being good enough, again, that's enough for that danger alarm to be fired up. So, If you, if any of this makes sense, then please don't worry about what approach you use. You do, you use the approach that you feel good
