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    Using Your Brain to Get Rid of Your Pain
    Using Your Brain to Get Rid of Your Pain
    Using Your Brain to Get Rid of Your Pain
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    Using Your Brain to Get Rid of Your Pain

    By John Perrier

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    About this ebook

    This book will help you to feel better.
    You’ll not only learn how to reduce or cure your aches and pains, but you’ll discover techniques that will help you to relax away the stresses and strains of everyday life.

    However, this book does not contain masses of complex psychiatry, nor is it a collection of old wives’ remedies. You won’t have to use any drugs to achieve amazing results, nor will you be required to burn incense or wear mystical healing crystals in an ankle bracelet.

    Instead, you will learn how to relieve your pain using the most natural cures known to medical science. Furthermore, the treatment will have beneficial spin-offs rather than unpleasant or dangerous side effects. Better still, it won’t cost you a single penny!

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    What other health professionals have said...

    “This is an easy-to-understand guide to stress and its related symptoms. The author explains these sometimes difficult concepts by using simple, relevant examples, and enlivens the discussion with a touch of humour along the way. Most importantly, it shows you in simple terms how to manage your own problems. I heartily recommend this book to all sufferers of chronic pain.”

    Ian McKenzie, Psychologist, Chronic pain clinician

    “What a wonderful, simple-to-read book! It’s funny, insightful, and does a magnificent job of combining theory with practical management. Anyone suffering with chronic pain or stress should read this book.”

    Hilary Thomson, Occupational Therapist

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherJohn Perrier
    Release dateApr 29, 2013
    ISBN9780987569400
    Using Your Brain to Get Rid of Your Pain
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    John Perrier

    John Perrier was born in Brisbane, Australia in 1967. Perrier has published five books across a variety of genres and subjects.His first book, published in 1999, was a self-help tome entitled 'Back Pain: How to get Rid of It Forever'. This book was an instant success in Australia, selling out its original print run. This book spawned an offshoot publication entitled 'Using Your Brain to Get Rid of Your Pain', which is a simple, commonsense guide on how to manage stress, reduce pain and think more healthily.Perrier has also penned three novels. The first, in the historical fiction genre, is 'Captain Rum - A Wondrous Adventure''. It chronicles the fantastic tale of Fintan McAdam, who set sail solo from London in 1821.The second novel is science fiction comedy for the young (and young at heart): 'A Few Quiet Beers with God'. Set in 2034, it follows the comedic mishaps of a young Australian named Dave who becomes entangled in a global power struggle.Perrier's third novel is a humorous travel biopic entitled 'Campervan Kama Sutra', a hilarious account of his family holiday across outback Australia with three kids. If you have half as much fun reading this as he had writing it then you are in for a treat!When he is not writing, Perrier likes to play basketball, cheer on his beloved Carlton Blues AFL side, potter in his herb garden, bush walk, play with his kids and listen to blues music. Occasionally he does two or three of these simultaneously.

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      Using Your Brain to Get Rid of Your Pain - John Perrier

      Using your brain to get rid of your pain

      A simple, common sense guide on how to manage stress, reduce pain, and think more healthily.

      By John Perrier, Physiotherapist

      Published by JP Publishing Australia

      Kindle edition

      Copyright 2013 John Perrier

      ISBN 978-0-9875694-0-0

      This ebook is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. This ebook may not be re-sold or given away to other people. If you would like to share this book with another person, please purchase an additional copy for each recipient. If you’re reading this book and did not purchase it, or it was not purchased for your use only, then please return to Smashwords.com and purchase your own copy. Thank you for respecting my hard work in bringing this book to you.

      About this book

      This book will help you to feel better.

      You’ll not only learn how to reduce or cure your aches and pains, but you’ll discover techniques that will help you to relax away the stresses and strains of everyday life.

      However, this book does not contain masses of complex psychiatry, nor is it a collection of old wives’ remedies. You won’t have to use any drugs to achieve amazing results, nor will you be required to burn incense or wear mystical healing crystals in an ankle bracelet.

      Instead, you will learn how to relieve your pain using the most natural cures known to medical science. Furthermore, the treatment will have beneficial spin-offs rather than unpleasant or dangerous side effects. Better still, it won’t cost you a single penny!

      What other health professionals have said....

      This is an easy-to-understand guide to stress and its related symptoms. The author explains these sometimes difficult concepts by using simple, relevant examples, and enlivens the discussion with a touch of humour along the way. Most importantly, it shows you in simple terms how to manage your own problems. I heartily recommend this book to all sufferers of chronic pain.

      Ian McKenzie, Psychologist, Chronic pain clinician

      What a wonderful, simple-to-read book! It’s funny, insightful, and does a magnificent job of combining theory with practical management. Anyone suffering with chronic pain or stress should read this book.

      Hilary Thomson, Occupational Therapist

      Complimentary MP3 relaxation track

      This version of Using your Brain to get Rid of Your Pain comes with a complimentary DOWNLOADABLE GIFT consisting of a 20-minute guided relaxation session MP3. It will greatly enhance your ability to put into practice the principles outlined in this book.

      To ensure that you make full use of the downloadable extra content, I recommend that you read the book beforehand. For those who simply can’t wait, you can jump ahead to the Free Gift here.

      Acknowledgments

      My thanks go to Ian McKenzie, Psychologist (B.A.Hons, Psych, MAPS) of the Gregory Terrace Rehabilitation Clinic in Brisbane, for his comments and suggestions. Ian freely gave of the knowledge he has accumulated over many years of working with chronic pain patients.

      I would also like to thank Hilary Thompson, Occupational Therapist, for her comments and suggestions. Her work in the relaxation clinic at The King Khalid National Guard Hospital in Saudi Arabia has provided her with a keen, practical sense of which techniques really work. Her suggestions were much appreciated.

      I also acknowledge the work of Bert Weir, from the Relaxation Centre in Brisbane, whose work has already helped thousands of people.

      Note

      Much of the information in this book has been extracted from another work by the same author entitled Back Pain: How to get rid of it forever. (ISBN 0 86806 675 3)

      First published in September 1999 by Hale and Iremonger of Sydney, this book is available at all good online bookshops, or from the author. It is also available as an E-book from most online E-book retailers (ISBN 978-0-9875694-1-7). See http://www.JPpublishingAUSTRALIA.com for more information on this title.

      Table of contents

      FRONT MATTER

      About this book

      What others have said

      Complimentary MP3 guided relaxation track

      Acknowledgments & notes

      USING YOUR BRAIN TO GET RID OF YOUR PAIN

      Chapter One: An introduction to pain

      Chapter Two: The effects of stress

      Chapter Three: Your physical tolerance to stress

      Chapter Four: How to relax

      Chapter Five: Attitudes, the placebo effect, and the power of the mind

      Chapter Six: Over to you!

      BONUS MATERIAL

      By the same author

      Connect and Contact

      Chapter One: An introduction to pain

      Pain! No matter what type of pain you are suffering, I’ll bet that you need no introduction. In fact, you probably know pain too well. Your pain may be aching, searing, stabbing or burning. It might be a dull headache, crippling arthritic pain, an acute back spasm, a frustrating bout of the ‘flu, or any one of a million other painful maladies. The episodes might be short and sharp, or continue unremittingly for weeks, months, even decades on end. Whatever type of pain you are suffering, the techniques in this book will show you how to decrease its ‘hurt’.

      This book does not contain masses of hard scientific data or in-depth psychiatry. Nor is it a collection of old wives’ remedies, religious doctrine or hippy-inspired new age alternatives. You won’t be using drugs, needles, or special equipment, nor will you be required to burn incense, chant mantras or wear mystical healing crystals in a bracelet around your ankle. Instead, you will learn how to relieve your pain using the most natural cures known to medical science.

      Furthermore, the treatment will have beneficial spin-offs rather than unpleasant or dangerous side effects. Better still, it won’t cost you a single penny!

      Please don’t think that any of the information in this booklet implies that your pain is ‘all in your head’. This is almost certainly false, and you should be wary of anybody who tells you so. In fact, the opposite is more likely to be true: you will soon see how stress causes real, measurable and identifiable changes in your body, which can cause a wide range of pain-provoking conditions.

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