Pain is Essential for Good Health

Powerful Patient, 2011 Week 23

Host: Joyce Graff, http://powerfulpatient.org, editor@vhl.org 800-767-4845

Beginning August 11, 2011 Listen

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Can pain be a good thing?

According to Dr. Joanne Messenger, pain isn’t only good – it’s an essential tool needed for the road to overall mental and physical health.

"Disease and pain are your body’s way of telling you what is wrong – like where you need to change what you’re doing,” she says.

Joyce talks with Dr. Messenger about her new book, Be in One Peace: Essential Skills for Thriving in the New World, which details how to understand pain as a way to pinpoint mental and physical issues that have been ignored and need to be resolved.