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Thursday, March 20, 2025

Lenten Reflection Day 17 - Dealing with Chronic Pain

Dealing with Chronic Pain


1. Pain

Among those with chronic pain, those who exhibited the best physical and mental health outcomes tended to share one quality: “coherence.” The researchers describe this as the ability to incorporate past and current events — including painful experiences—with future projections, and visualize life and the world with understanding rather than worry.

2. List the Lessons

Once you’ve given the traumatic experience or era a name, grab a journal, open up your Notes app, or write yourself an email with a run-down of the lessons you’ve learned or memorable moments that have arisen as a result of that pain.

3. Define Your Why

Then it’s time to get clear on what you want in life — and why, Jhas says. This essentially means defining a self-growth blueprint. Core values can come in clutch here. So how do you define those? Ask yourself:

What fills my cup?

When and where do I feel most excited in my life?

Where do I want to channel my energy?

Once you know what really matters, you can keep this in mind as you consider adjusting your actions to align with these.

4. Turn Those Hard-Earned Lessons Into Triumphs

Hop back to your lessons list and ask:

How might I move from pain toward purpose?

How can these lessons learned aid in transforming my life to be more in line with my “why”?

“Really think through the ways in which you are uniquely suited to attend to this mission because you truly empathize with the trauma and its fallout,” Saltz says.

5. Let Go

There are certain parts of the pain that won’t ever be positive. Say you lost a parent to cancer. Since we can’t completely rid the world of the condition (yet), sometimes it’s best to “release certain things that you can’t control or that live in the past,” Jhas says. Use that brain space to “shift your focus to the things that you do have control over, in the present and the future.” Going back to the cancer example, perhaps you can dedicate some of your nonprofit donations to causes that support cancer research or volunteer in the chemotherapy unit at a hospital, for instance.


Obulumi obw'olutentezi


1. Obulumi


Eri abo abalina obulumi obw’olutentezi, abo abaayolesa ebisinga obulungi ku bulamu bw’omubiri n’obwongo baali batera okuba n’engeri emu: “okukwatagana.” Abanoonyereza kino bakinnyonnyola ng’obusobozi bw’okuyingiza ebibaddewo emabega n’ebibaddewo mu kiseera kino — omuli n’ebintu ebiruma —n’okuteebereza mu biseera eby’omu maaso, n’okulaba obulamu n’ensi mu birowoozo n’okutegeera okusinga okweraliikirira.


2. Wandiika Ebyokuyiga


Bw’omala okuwa obumanyirivu obw’ekikangabwa oba omulembe erinnya, kwata journal, ggulawo app yo eya Notes, oba wewandiike email ng’eraga eby’okuyiga by’oyize oba ebiseera ebijjukirwanga ebizze biva ku bulumi obwo.


3. Nnyonnyola Lwaki

Olwo kye kiseera okutegeera obulungi ky’oyagala mu bulamu — era lwaki, Jhas bw’agamba. Kino mu bukulu kitegeeza okunnyonnyola pulaani y’okwekulakulanya. Empisa enkulu zisobola okutuukibwako wano. Kale ebyo obinnyonnyola otya? Weebuuze nti: Kiki ekijjuza essowaani yange?

Wa era Ddi lwe nsinga okucamuka mu bulamu bwange? Wa wenjagala okussa amaanyi gange? Bw’omala okumanya ekikulu ennyo, kino osobola okukikuuma mu birowoozo ng’olowooza ku ky’okutereeza ebikolwa byo okukwatagana ne bino.


4. Ofuula Eby’okuyiga Ebyo 

Ebikoleddwa n’Obuzibu Okufuuka Obuwanguzi

Ddayo ku lukalala lw’eby’okuyiga era weebuuze nti: Nnyinza ntya okuva mu bulumi okutuuka ku kigendererwa? Eby’okuyiga bino biyinza bitya okuyamba mu kukyusa obulamu bwange okusobola okukwatagana ennyo ne “lwaki” yange? “Ddala lowooza mu ngeri gy’osaanira mu ngeri ey’enjawulo okukola ku bubaka buno kubanga mu butuufu osaasira ekikangabwa n’ebivaamu,” Saltz bw’agamba.


5. Kite

Waliwo ebitundu ebimu eby’obulumi ebitajja kuba birungi. Gamba nti wafiirwa omuzadde olwa kookolo. Okuva bwe kiri nti tetusobola kugoba ddala nsi mu mbeera eno (n’okutuusa kati), oluusi kirungi “okufulumya ebintu ebimu by’otosobola kufuga oba ebibeera mu biseera eby’emabega,” Jhas bw’agamba. Kozesa ekifo ekyo eky’obwongo “okukyusa essira lyo ku bintu by’olina obuyinza ku bintu, mu kiseera kino n’ebiseera eby’omu maaso.” Nga tudda ku kyokulabirako kya kookolo, mpozzi oyinza okuwaayo ebimu ku nsimbi zo ezitali za magoba eri ensonga eziwagira okunoonyereza ku kookolo oba okwewaayo mu kitongole ky’obujjanjabi bw’eddagala mu ddwaaliro, okugeza.

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