{"id":7179,"date":"2016-02-29T06:26:02","date_gmt":"2016-02-29T10:26:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.howtocopewithpain.org\/blog\/?p=7179"},"modified":"2016-11-19T09:04:31","modified_gmt":"2016-11-19T13:04:31","slug":"pain-management-class-2016-guided-imagery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.howtocopewithpain.org\/blog\/7179\/pain-management-class-2016-guided-imagery\/","title":{"rendered":"Pain Management Class:  Guided Imagery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>This article is in our\u00a0series\u00a0featuring\u00a0pain management techniques to help you decrease and cope with pain. It&#8217;s your at-home pain management class!<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Guided imagery<\/strong>\u00a0helps reduce pain even more directly than relaxation exercises through the use of <em>suggestion<\/em>. An image is paired with\u00a0your pain, and by imagining\u00a0decreasing or changing\u00a0the picture\u00a0in some way, your pain may also decrease. This exercise uses\u00a0the image of\u00a0<em>special water<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/farm2.static.flickr.com\/1226\/567915014_3a45ea6716.jpg?v=0\" alt=\"\" width=\"222\" height=\"333\" align=\"middle\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.howtocopewithpain.org\/resources\/guided-imagery-1-special-water.html\">Guided imagery of water<\/a><\/p>\n<p>There are several ways to use this exercise:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>listen to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.howtocopewithpain.org\/resources\/guided-imagery-1-special-water.html\">audio on our website<\/a><\/li>\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>tape record the exercise yourself, then play it back and listen (record it in your cellphone!)<\/li>\n<li>have someone else read or record the exercise for you<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>As you try\u00a0guided imagery, notice\u00a0if you\u00a0benefit\u00a0<em>even more\u00a0<\/em>than from using\u00a0relaxation exercises.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Your assignment:\u00a0<em>Do a guided imagery exercise at least once a day<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This article is in our\u00a0series\u00a0featuring\u00a0pain management techniques to help you decrease and cope with pain. It&#8217;s your at-home pain management class! Guided imagery\u00a0helps reduce pain even more directly than relaxation exercises through the use of suggestion. An image is paired with\u00a0your pain, and by imagining\u00a0decreasing or changing\u00a0the picture\u00a0in some way, your pain may also decrease. [&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-7179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-1"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.howtocopewithpain.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7179","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=7179"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.howtocopewithpain.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7179\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7858,"href":"https:\/\/www.howtocopewithpain.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7179\/revisions\/7858"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.howtocopewithpain.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.howtocopewithpain.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.howtocopewithpain.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}