Here are some great quick tips to help with pain. To enjoy life more, you can decrease the negative or increase the positive. Unfortunately, for those of us with chronic pain, we sometimes can’t lower that negative experience. So these practices will increase the positive! Maybe challenge yourself to learn a new one each week?

• Smile
• Look for the positive
• Get outside in nature
• Take 5 minutes each to remember the positive
• A daily act of kindness
• Enjoy the happiness of others
• Practice compassion
• Using your senses to help with pain: sight
• Using your senses to help with pain: smell
• Using your senses to help with pain: hearing
• Using your senses to help with pain: taste
• Using your senses to help with pain: touch
• Using your senses to help with pain: taste
• Using your senses to help with pain: thermoception
• Using your senses to help with pain: kinesthetic sense