Pain should be acknowledged as a sensation, a piece of information sent by our sensorial system. It is neither good or bad, it’s indifferent. It is how we deal with that sensation that is important.

• Stoics suggest Cognitive Distancing and Objective Representation to pain management
  • Separate the sensation from the emotion it may trigger. Again, it’s important to decatastrophize
  • Describing the pain in plain words in a pure factual fashion can be very helpful. Another trick to help with cognitive distancing is to describe the pain in the third-person.
    • “Guillaume is experiencing pain in his left arm, with spikes of sharper pain when ...”