Chronic Pain Was My New Normal. Then I Healed

But first, I had to believe it was possible to heal.

In the dark days when my arthritis and chronic pain were at their worst, I used to be massively triggered by anyone who bade me farewell with the simple platitude, “Hope you feel better soon.”

They didn’t mean any harm by it, my friends and family were simply trying to help, but it set me off. I would thank them politely, then quickly extradite myself from the social situation to cry alone.

Why did this simple phrase set my teeth on edge? Easy — I believed it was impossible to “feel better” ever again, let alone soon. I steadfastly believed this state of constant pain was my new normal, and I was going to have to learn how to live with it.

I didn’t like it, but that’s just the way it was — or so I thought.

The funny thing about thoughts is that you tend to get what you think is coming, making your thoughts a sort of self-fulfilling prophecy.

Consider this:

In this way, your past experiences dictate your present and your future — I’ve felt pain in the past, so I’ll continue to feel pain now, and I’ll wake up to pain again tomorrow. Joe Dispenza sums it up like this:

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