Did you know that when it comes to pain you have a choice? You can make it your enemy or your friend by the way you react to it and by the way you think about pain and what meaning you give to what's happening in your body.

What is it about the pain that you focus on the most? How do you describe your pain to others? What words do you use to describe how it is affecting your life?.

Well-being is a natural birthright for us all so if you are not feeling well then this is may be an indication that you are simply out of alignment with your natural, healthy, non-pain state. It may be that pain is not the 'enemy' you might first suppose, but rather a signal, a useful pointer to bring your attention to the fact that you need to bring things back into harmony with good healthy flow.

The Law of Attraction states that things of similar vibration are drawn towards each other. Like attracts like, whether that is something negative or positive. So, if you find yourself feeling victimised by pain you may attract into your life, people, experiences and situations that will add to the victimisation. When you are feeling doubtful about becoming well again, opportunities of becoming well and pain free may elude you because the Law of Attraction matches like with like.

As soon as pain hits we notice it straight away.It is designed that way. This is perfectly natural and is the body's way of getting your attention. The problem arises when we stick with the pain and dwell on it for too long so that it turns from signal to a more chronic condition.

Once you have reassured yourself there's no immediate danger, you become free to take a more subtle and deliberately positive approach. If you turn things around and make a deliberate choice to feel hopeful of recovery and dwell on that and practise bringing your focus away from the pain and towards the parts of your body that are healthy and feel good, a way is opened for recovery to be attracted towards you. You might, for example be experiencing pain in your lower back or in your hip or shoulder. At this point you could try choosing, as an experiment, to focus instead on being grateful for your easy breathing or how easy and delightful it is to be able to move your fingers and toes ...

This positive focus will lead you to think and feel differently and your body will support you by producing feel good hormones in response to your lighter focus. When that happens you'll find that the pain will start to dissolve.

This is a process you can use whenever you need, to help you to shift the balance of your thoughts around pain to a place where you can begin to attract a healthy flow of wellness and restoration which can lead back to full vibrant health and no more pain.

We don't need to let pain take our power away. Nor our good feelings. The universe and all of its natural laws are there for us to make use of to our advantage. We can empower ourselves to make choices which are conducive to our good health. Your thoughts are yours... you choose them and you can direct your thoughts and consequent feelings to manifest what you want simply by focusing more on what you do want rather than what you don't.