Five Tips to Reframe
It is never easy to reframe your experience of pain. Arthritis can be extremely debilitating if you habitually judge it to be negative. However, when you reframe your experience of pain from something negative to something that you will learn to deal with, your discomfort will lessen. Most arthritis sufferers focus on their pain constantly . We are almost defined by it because we habitually focus on pain all the time. But we are not our pain. It is only a small part of our experience of living with arthritis. We have to realize that our identity is not dependent on it. Instead, we should become aware of our discomfort as a signal from our body and look at it with compassion instead of fear. In addition, pain is not as solid and continuous as we seem to believe. You can ascertain this for yourself by just becoming more aware of it. But instead of being scared of it, when you feel a sharp sensation, simply become aware of it as if you're observing it from a distance. Don't put a