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Once you rule out anything serious with a doctor, you step on to the path of healing. The key is believing 110%. 90% won't cut it. No matter how bad your pain is, you have to know that your body was sending you a message with this pain that your life needs fixing and your emotions need to be dealt with. Thinking psychological means that you are retraining your brain to stop fearing the pain and realize that's it's actually caused by you. Meaning you have the power to stop it. You must master outcome independence. Meaning do what you want to do if it makes you happy, regardless of how you feel after. Slowly introduce things back into your life that you've stopped doing because it hurts. If you don't sit because of your low back pain, sit for 5 minutes without caring how you feel during or after. Tell yourself while sitting that it's completely normal to sit and there's nothing wrong with your back that should be causing pain. After you stand back up don't worry if your sore because it's all part of the process. Do this for a few days and then try sitting for 10 minutes. Gradually increase until you find yourself sitting without even thinking about it. Apply this method to everything that hurts to do. You want to do the emotional work and the brain training that it takes to get rid of the conditioned responses. But you also must not obsess over it all and make time each day to be happy and do things you love. Find ways to laugh every day. Write down what your greatful for every day. Once you make more and more progress you will have your evidence that everything is fine and you can start to lessen the work part of it and increase the amount of time you don't think about your pain. Be happy. Be patient. Be kind to yourself.