Chronic Pain & Life
  • Blog
  • About
  • Topics
  • Read Me Please
  • Contact
  • Reflective Images
  • Facebook

Chronic Pain & Life

​tips, tools, and strategies
to living life with chronic pain

click here TO GO TO THE FACEBOOK PAGE

LCP Boot Camp Challenge Day 23

7/23/2014

0 Comments

 
Today's LCP Boot Camp Challenge is to do something soothing for yourself today. Give thought to the five senses, sight, sound, touch, taste, and smell...what can you do using your senses to soothe yourself?

Here are a few examples to get you started....

Sight...visit an art gallery, look at the "family album", walk in a garden noticing the different colours, go for a walk, sit outside on a patio and people watch, watch the sun rise/set, draw, paint your nails, get a haircut or shave

Sound...go see a live band, listen to your favourite music, call a loved one just to hear their voice, go outside, closing your eyes and just listen to the sounds of nature around you, visit a beach and listen as the waves crash the shore
Touch...have a bubble bath and play with the bubbles, pop bubble wrap, put fresh sheets on your bed before bed tonight, work with your hands (cooking, baking, knitting, mechanical, wood working, coins, stamps), put on your comfy clothes, grab your favourite blanket

Taste...buy yourself your favourite treat and slowly enjoy it, have your favourite meal, sample the flavours at your local ice cream or frozen yogurt shop, enjoy a refreshing drink

Smell...put on your favourite cologne or perfume, go to a bakery and notice the smells when you walk in, go for a walk by the water or in the woods, light a scented candle, go to your workshop and notice what it smells like when you walk in

Using our five senses is something we often take for granted. We're so used to the way things are that we fail to appreciate all the ways things can be and how we can be affected by them, even calmed and soothed. What is in your environment that you can use your five senses to soothe you?

​Now you for this to work you have to really open yourself to all the things you never really noticed before....the things you took for granted...are you up for it? 
0 Comments



Leave a Reply.

    Tammy...

    is living life with chronic pain...doing the best I can with everyday. 

    Categories

    All
    About The Author
    A Lil Haha
    Coping Skills
    Health Wellness
    Im Sick And Tired Of Being Sick And Tired Rant
    Inspirational Quotes
    Inspirational Quotes Part 2
    It's Funny
    Lcp-boot-camp
    Medication Monday
    Odds Ends
    Pain Behaviours
    Spiritual Sunday
    Thought Therapy

    Archives

    August 2020
    May 2017
    April 2017
    March 2017
    February 2017
    January 2017
    December 2016
    November 2016
    October 2016
    September 2016
    August 2016
    July 2016
    June 2016
    May 2016
    April 2016
    March 2016
    February 2016
    January 2016
    December 2015
    November 2015
    October 2015
    September 2015
    August 2015
    July 2015
    June 2015
    May 2015
    April 2015
    March 2015
    February 2015
    January 2015
    December 2014
    November 2014
    October 2014
    September 2014
    August 2014
    July 2014
    June 2014
    May 2014
    April 2014
    March 2014
    February 2014

    RSS Feed

Powered by Create your own unique website with customizable templates.