When I was an intern, whenever I talked about how I overcame my symptoms, the pain would return! So I stopped talking about it. After a few months, I realized that I was just feeding into the fear. So I started talking about it again, and it came back, and I didn't care, and then it went away.
The only power the pain has over you is its ability to scare you.
You know there's nothing wrong you - you've proved that - now it's just a matter of changing your relationship with fear. When you have the thought, "Uh oh, what if the pain comes back?" Respond to that voice, "Let it come back. Bring it on. I'd rather be in pain than live my life in fear."
When you truly get to a place where you're not getting sucked in by the fear, the paid loses its power over you.
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