{"id":7175,"date":"2016-02-22T06:11:50","date_gmt":"2016-02-22T10:11:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.howtocopewithpain.org\/blog\/?p=7175"},"modified":"2016-11-19T09:04:41","modified_gmt":"2016-11-19T13:04:41","slug":"pain-management-class-2016-try-12-a-habit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.howtocopewithpain.org\/blog\/7175\/pain-management-class-2016-try-12-a-habit\/","title":{"rendered":"Pain Management Class:  Try 1\/2 a Habit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>This article is in our\u00a0series featuring\u00a0pain management techniques to help you decrease and cope with pain. It&#8217;s your at-home pain management class!<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Sometimes it&#8217;s hard\u00a0to do things that will help yourself, even if you know they&#8217;re good for you. An intriguing suggestion\u00a0comes from Haider Al-Mosawi. He writes that committing to a new habit &#8211; say, using your skills every day &#8211; doesn&#8217;t need to be a decision between\u00a0<strong>zero\u00a0<\/strong>commitment and\u00a0<strong>100%\u00a0<\/strong>commitment. You can try\u00a01\/2 habits.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"1\/2\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3061\/2504397098_e780c99c72.jpg?v=0\" alt=\"\" width=\"337\" height=\"183\" \/><\/p>\n<p>What does that mean?\u00a0 Rather than\u00a0commiting\u00a0<em>fully\u00a0<\/em>to a new habit, you simply<em>\u00a0take a step in its direction<\/em>. Why is this better? Your focus then turns to the progress that you&#8217;re making instead of the times you don&#8217;t succeed. Here are some examples:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Commit to using your pain management skills every other day instead of every day<\/li>\n<li>Meditate for 10 minutes instead of 20<\/li>\n<li>Try to modify 1 favorite activity so you can still do it instead of all 5 of your hobbies<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Your assignment:\u00a0 Try 1\/2 a habit<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This article is in our\u00a0series featuring\u00a0pain management techniques to help you decrease and cope with pain. It&#8217;s your at-home pain management class! Sometimes it&#8217;s hard\u00a0to do things that will help yourself, even if you know they&#8217;re good for you. An intriguing suggestion\u00a0comes from Haider Al-Mosawi. He writes that committing to a new habit &#8211; say, [&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-7175","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-1"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.howtocopewithpain.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7175","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=7175"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.howtocopewithpain.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7175\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7859,"href":"https:\/\/www.howtocopewithpain.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7175\/revisions\/7859"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.howtocopewithpain.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.howtocopewithpain.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.howtocopewithpain.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}