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Choose Your Pain
- By Rejoyce Wilson-Herbert
- Published 07/12/2011
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Rejoyce Wilson-Herbert
Rejoyce Wilson-Herbert is the founder of National Information Resource Services (NIRS), an organization committed to educating people on the home care industry. Currently residing in Newport Coast, CA, Rejoyce is the General Manager of MemorialCare Home Caregivers. She is also a nationally recognized advocate for the elderly
and is one of the most highly-sought after speakers in her field. She is a proud mother, grandmother and great-grandmother and continues to work hard and help people realize their own goals.
The often heard phrases "pick your battles" and "choose your own
poison" both refer to making the best
decision for yourself.
Today I'm coining a new phrase: “Pick Your Pain.”
We all have pains in our bodies: headaches, back pains, foot and hand pains, heart aches and the old pain in the rear. We have pain from exercising and pain from lack of exercise. We have mental pains, pains that we create that really don't exist, and pains that need medication or therapy.
Marian Webster's online dictionary states that pain is localized physical suffering associated with bodily disorder such as disease or an injury. Pain is also a basic bodily sensation induced by a noxious stimulus.
As a young child I was very active. I did not like to sit still and was always on the move. As an adult I held on to the same childhood intense high energy. From the age of eight my days began at 4:00 a.m., and ended somewhere between 11:00 p.m. and midnight. As I grew into adolescence I became addicted to exercising which included weight training, running, and high impact aerobics. When I faced adulthood, the need to stay physically fit took on a new importance in my life and I increased my exercise routine to seven days per week, twice daily. As I increased the intensity of my exercise program the intensity of the pains in my body became more and more severe. The phrase, “no pain, no gain” may not be true, but I believed it and worked through pains daily.
Eventually I had a foot injury that took an entire year to heal. After years of effort to keep my exercise program going I had to stop in order to allow my foot to heal. After a year of very little to no exercise, I noticed that I was still having pains throughout my body. Several areas of my body would just ache. After a complete physical I was found to be in good health. It was at that point that I realized that pain is a part of each person’s life. At that same moment I also realized that I can choose the pains with which I am willing to live. I can even successfully manage the pains that I choose to live with.
I also realized that pain does not always come from a physical injury; pain can come from mental hurt or injury, as well.
Are pains real? Yes. Every pain we feel is real to each us and we have the ability to take charge of those pains to determine how we handle them. In the medical field we refer to this technique as pain management. Everyone has the capacity to manage his or her pain; perhaps not the ones that are life threatening, but those that give us excuses to avoid being responsible for our good health.
How many times have any of us said, "I would love to run, jump, or ride a bicycle so I can get my body in better physical condition, but I cannot because I hurt all over."
Our bodies are ours to work with. We can use our will to overcome obstacles and achieve success by choosing the pains with which we want to live. Setting goals doesn't come without pain, but pain or no pain, life has so many gains if we practice sound pain management and "Pick Our Pain".
Today I'm coining a new phrase: “Pick Your Pain.”
We all have pains in our bodies: headaches, back pains, foot and hand pains, heart aches and the old pain in the rear. We have pain from exercising and pain from lack of exercise. We have mental pains, pains that we create that really don't exist, and pains that need medication or therapy.
Marian Webster's online dictionary states that pain is localized physical suffering associated with bodily disorder such as disease or an injury. Pain is also a basic bodily sensation induced by a noxious stimulus.
As a young child I was very active. I did not like to sit still and was always on the move. As an adult I held on to the same childhood intense high energy. From the age of eight my days began at 4:00 a.m., and ended somewhere between 11:00 p.m. and midnight. As I grew into adolescence I became addicted to exercising which included weight training, running, and high impact aerobics. When I faced adulthood, the need to stay physically fit took on a new importance in my life and I increased my exercise routine to seven days per week, twice daily. As I increased the intensity of my exercise program the intensity of the pains in my body became more and more severe. The phrase, “no pain, no gain” may not be true, but I believed it and worked through pains daily.
Eventually I had a foot injury that took an entire year to heal. After years of effort to keep my exercise program going I had to stop in order to allow my foot to heal. After a year of very little to no exercise, I noticed that I was still having pains throughout my body. Several areas of my body would just ache. After a complete physical I was found to be in good health. It was at that point that I realized that pain is a part of each person’s life. At that same moment I also realized that I can choose the pains with which I am willing to live. I can even successfully manage the pains that I choose to live with.
I also realized that pain does not always come from a physical injury; pain can come from mental hurt or injury, as well.
Are pains real? Yes. Every pain we feel is real to each us and we have the ability to take charge of those pains to determine how we handle them. In the medical field we refer to this technique as pain management. Everyone has the capacity to manage his or her pain; perhaps not the ones that are life threatening, but those that give us excuses to avoid being responsible for our good health.
How many times have any of us said, "I would love to run, jump, or ride a bicycle so I can get my body in better physical condition, but I cannot because I hurt all over."
Our bodies are ours to work with. We can use our will to overcome obstacles and achieve success by choosing the pains with which we want to live. Setting goals doesn't come without pain, but pain or no pain, life has so many gains if we practice sound pain management and "Pick Our Pain".
