{"id":7136,"date":"2016-01-25T06:37:02","date_gmt":"2016-01-25T10:37:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.howtocopewithpain.org\/blog\/?p=7136"},"modified":"2025-09-04T14:12:35","modified_gmt":"2025-09-04T18:12:35","slug":"pain-management-skills-2016-relaxation-exercise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.howtocopewithpain.org\/blog\/7136\/pain-management-skills-2016-relaxation-exercise\/","title":{"rendered":"Pain Management Skills:  <i>Relaxation Exercise<\/i>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>This article is in our\u00a0articles\u00a0featuring pain management techniques to help you decrease and cope with pain. It&#8217;s your at-home pain management class!<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Relaxation exercise\u00a0<\/strong>help\u00a0reduce pain by helping you be more relaxed.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.howtocopewithpain.org\/resources\/basic-relaxation-exercise.html\">Relaxation Exercise<\/a><\/p>\n<p>There are several ways to use this exercise:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>read through the exercise and then do it from memory (it doesn&#8217;t have to be done exactly as I&#8217;ve written it)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.howtocopewithpain.org\/resources\/basic-relaxation-exercise.html\">listen to it on this website<\/a><\/li>\n<li>tape record the exercise yourself, then play it back for yourself to do (you can even do this on your cellphone)<\/li>\n<li>have someone else read or record the exercise for you<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Your assignment: <em>Do the relaxation exercise at least once a day.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This article is in our\u00a0articles\u00a0featuring pain management techniques to help you decrease and cope with pain. It&#8217;s your at-home pain management class! Relaxation exercise\u00a0help\u00a0reduce pain by helping you be more relaxed. Relaxation Exercise There are several ways to use this exercise: read through the exercise and then do it from memory (it doesn&#8217;t have to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-1"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.howtocopewithpain.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7136","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.howtocopewithpain.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.howtocopewithpain.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.howtocopewithpain.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.howtocopewithpain.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7136"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.howtocopewithpain.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7136\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8043,"href":"https:\/\/www.howtocopewithpain.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7136\/revisions\/8043"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.howtocopewithpain.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.howtocopewithpain.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.howtocopewithpain.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}