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SYSK Choice: The Universe’s Biggest Questions Answered & A Fascinating Study of Pain

Something You Should Know

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When You're in Pain, That's the Goal

Margie Kerr is a sociologist who has been teaching and conducting research on pain since 2004. Research shows that the more vocabulary you have to describe all the different ways that you're feeling, the better able you are to manage them. Whenever you decide you cannot do something, you will always be proven right. You can't achieve a goal if you don't believe you can. In the absence of goals, the brain has nothing to act on.

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