Goals of Feeling Better

Pain and emotions are connected. Pain can trigger negative emotions, and negative emotions can amplify the pain signal, making you feel that your pain is worse. On the other hand, positive emotions can diminish the pain signal and lessen your experience of pain. In Feeling Better, you will learn how to practice relaxation techniques, identify and manage emotional triggers, and increase positive emotions. These will all help you to alleviate your experience of pain by reducing negative feelings and fostering positive ones. 

practice relaxation

Practice relaxation and meditation to manage emotions

manage negativity

Identify and manage negative emotional triggers

increase positivity

Identify and increase positive emotional experiences

Goals of Feeling Better

Practice Relaxation, Manage Negativity, and Increase Positivity

Learning activities

Manage Emotions Through Relaxation

Meditation and relaxation can be valuable tools to gain better control over emotions. Learn to accept your emotions, soothe yourself, and quiet down.

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Identify Negative Emotional Triggers

Negative emotions can make it harder to manage your pain. Learn to to identify the situations, people, experiences, or thoughts that make you feel bad.

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Manage Negative Emotional Triggers

In this activity, you will select three negative emotional triggers. Then you will learn coping strategies and create plans to manage these triggers.

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Identify Positive Emotional Triggers

Having a better emotional life includes not only reducing and managing negative triggers and emotions, but also building positive experiences and emotions. This activity will help you to identify the activities, events, and experiences that lead to positive emotions.

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Build Positive Emotional Experiences

Positive emotional experiences can help make managing pain easier and more effective.  After creating a list of your own positive emotional triggers, this activity will help you plan ways to incorporate them into daily life.

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