You may or may not know what causes it, but pain, intense, excruciating and severe, takes you to the point where nothing else matters. And yet there is no easy way of eliminating pain

CREATIVE VISUALIZATION

• Relax. Keep your eyes closed while you take a few deep, easy breaths.

• Imagine yourself in the most beautiful, serene place that you can conjure up.

• Think of a time when you felt relaxed and peaceful—perhaps a walk in the park, a day on a sunny beach, or an evening at a concert.
• Focus on the sights, smell and physical sensations associated with that event.

• Now focus on the area of pain and visualize the ugly chemical cells that are causing the pain, the nerves that are carrying the pain to the spinal cord and form there to the brain.

• Imagine your immune system producing endorphins, which devour toxic chemicals and sweep the affected body part clean of them, like vacuum cleaning a carpet.

• Imagine that body part glowing with health and freshness. You could even repeat a positive affirmation such as " I love and accept the pain in my body".

• In case you have pain in one shoulder and the other shoulder is fine, visualize that the shoulder, which is in pain, is just like the other without it.

The visualization exercise, done for 20 minutes twice a day for three weeks, will show some positive results in combating pain.