It's Our Own Responsibility to Change... & So Reach for Recovery
- Catherine Pollitt
- Jan 29
- 2 min read
Updated: Nov 7
Even if it's happening on a more subconscious level, we often look outside ourselves for others to help fix us. When symptoms persist, however, the paths to relief and recovery often lie within ourselves, the mindbody continuum.
In my last blog I took a peek into how our knowledge, thoughts & emotions can feed our accumulating stress which can become held within the mind & body (whether that's in or out of our conscious awareness).
This, in turn, can impact pain because hidden, underlying, unexpressed and so unprocessed emotions are now realised to be a fuel for many common symptoms becoming persistent, including pain.
When we take responsibility for ourselves, we’re empowered
Because no-one else can think our thoughts or feel our emotions, we have to accept that each one of us is the only one that can make the changes needed to reframe our thoughts, work to correct our beliefs, & gradually release buried emotional turmoil.
It's our own responsibility to embrace those changes that will finally allow us to achieve relief and recovery
Although it's very helpful to have a trusted professional working alongside us to teach, guide & support us, the change comes from within each of us.
A wonderful perspective on this is to realise how this actually empowers us. Accepting that we can learn to regain control of our thoughts - & so our beliefs & emotions - allows us to move out of any blame or victimhood we may feel - & into our own power.
Making the better choice for ourselves
Each of us gets to decide how we will think & react towards ourselves, events and other people - including how we respond to our symptoms.
Each time we can choose compassion over criticism, seek out the facts before catastrophising over possible fiction, choose appreciation rather than disapproval, re-evaluate for positive perspectives, and we can choose to look & move forwards with an optimistic intention rather than ruminate over past turmoil.
When you take responsibility like this, you help take the power away from emotionally challenging events and people - & help remove the fuel for symptoms that may have been generated as a result.
In other words, you're in control. No-one else. Which, from a positive perspective, is awesome!
What’s the first choice today you could make differently to empower yourself? Enjoy making the better choices for yourself in your week ahead!
Keen to learn more? Click here to watch my enlightening 45minute webinar on the mindbody approach to relief and recovery from persisting/chronic pain.
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