PAIN FREE!A Miracle Cure for Pain in the Body
J A M E S S K I N N E RM A R K V I C T O R H A N S E N
R O I C E K R U E G E R
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Pain Free! A Miracle Cure for Pain in the Body
James Skinner, Roice Krueger, and Mark Victor Hansen
“Pain Free” is a remarkable guide for instantly
removing pain in the body. It can work for you.
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The Authors
JAMES SKINNER is the founder of two global financial
groups that manage billions of dollars of assets. He is
also recognized as one of the world’s foremost business
thinkers and appears regularly on Japanese television.
ROICE KRUEGER co-founded Franklin Covey, the
world’s largest training company, and has supervised
consulting projects for 80 percent of the Fortune 500.
MARK VICTOR HANSEN is the co-creator of the Chicken
Soup for the Soul empire and is the best-selling nonfiction
author of all time. His goal is to make the planet work
for all humanity!
NOTE: Ideas That Can Change Your Life™ is a
collaboration of three of the world’s most amazing
authors, speakers, and thinkers. The first person “I” may
refer to any of the authors.
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More Than Just Basketball
The whole thing started on a remote island of Fiji. I was
playing basketball with some friends, when one of the
guys intentionally pushed me over.
I fell poorly and sprained my ankle quite badly.
Now, normally I would be very upset about
something like that, and I would have shouted, “Why
did you push me? Are you crazy?!”
But this time things were different. The friend who
had pushed me over had just broken up with his wife
that morning, and I had seen the whole thing.
That he was reacting more to that than he was to the
game goes without saying.
I told myself, “There is more than basketball going
on here.”
That metaphor has stuck with me ever since.
“There is more than basketball going on here.”
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Now whenever somebody overreacts or treats me
unfairly, I try to remind myself, “There is more than
basketball going on here.”
The person is reacting not just to the moment but to
everything else that is happening in their life as well.
The Challenge
However, this still left me with a problem.
The island that we were on had no clinic, no
doctors, and no pharmacy.
I went back to my room in the hotel. By this time,
my ankle had swollen to the size of a grapefruit.
The pain was so intense, in fact, that trying to walk
from my bed to the washbasin, I almost passed out.
What to do?
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Since there was nobody else to rely on, I would just
have to find a way to deal with the problem myself.
The Pain Is All in the Brain
Now the question I would like to ask you is this: When
you experience physical pain, where do you feel it?
The answer is you feel it in your head!
This is totally true.
If your spinal cord were severed, someone could
stab your hand with a fork all day and you would not
feel the least bit of discomfort.
Basically, what happens is this:
The nerves in the body send electrical signals to the
brain to let the brain know what is happening in their
neck of the woods.
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The brain then interprets these signals to mean
pleasure, pain, discomfort, ticklishness, or the proverbial
itch.
This thought hit me like a bolt of lightning. Pain is
just an interpretation of events!
Pain is just an interpretation of events!
Now if that is true, I know all kinds of ways to
change how my brain perceives an event.
Within five minutes, I had developed a foolproof
process for eliminating pain in the body.
I have since used this process to help countless
people, and time and time again I have seen pain levels
drop from 10 to 0 on a scale of 0 to10 in three minutes
or less.
In fact, after I first used the process on myself, I
went out the same day and climbed a mountain without
any discomfort whatsoever. I have even used it to help
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women go through childbirth without resorting to
painkilling medication!
This process is now being used in many hospitals to
help patients get out of pain fast. It is, after all, drug free
and has no side effects!
Pre-check
Now, before I tell you how to do it, I want to remind
you of something you already know: Pain has a very
useful function in the body!
The body experiences pain for a reason. That reason
is very simple. It is to tell you that you are placing a
demand on the body that is unsustainable and that if
you continue to do so, the body may be damaged in
irreparable ways.
Pain is a signal to tell us that the body has been
subjected to an unsustainable demand!
So before you remove physical pain from yourself or
anyone else, I want you to stop and ask, “What is this
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pain trying to tell me?” “What unsustainable demand is
being placed on the body?”
It is important that you remove this demand and not
subject the body to it, lest you sustain permanent
damage to the body.
It is important to find the cause of the pain and
remove the cause.
In my case, the cause was being pushed around on
the basketball court.
Since I had no intention whatsoever of continuing
to play basketball with angry and despondent lovers, it
was now completely appropriate to remove the pain and
have it go away.
The Process
Step 1: Quantifying the Problem
On a scale of 0-10 how severe is the pain?
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It is important to assess this first so we can know
whether our process is working or not.
We want to get to 0 before we’re done.
Step 2: Color
What color is your pain? You may not have known that
pain has a color, but it does. What color is it?
Once you have identified the color, pull out a
paintbrush from the toolbox of your mind and paint the
pain a different color. If it is red, paint it sky blue. If it is
green, try making it pink.
On a scale of 0-10, how bad is the pain now?
If the pain is not less than before, choose a different
color.
Step 3: Size
Now big is the pain? How many inches or centimeters is
the pain from side to side?
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Wrap a cord around the pain and squeeze it down to
the size of a postage stamp. Then wrap a steel band
around it so that it does not expand again.
Once again, on a scale of 0-10, where are we at?
Step 4: Distance
How far away is the pain? Is it near or far?
Take the pain (still a new color and the size of a
postage stamp) and move it farther away from you.
Put it outside the house.
Put it on the other side of town.
Check in again: Where is the pain on our 0-10 scale?
Step 5: Brightness
If you are still experiencing anything more than a 2 on
our pain scale, change the brightness.
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Try turning on bright spotlights so that the pain is
completely whited out.
Or alternatively, try turning off all the lights so that
the pain is invisible.
Check the pain scale once again.
Step 6: The Moving Truck
Now you are ready for the final step.
Have a moving truck come and take the pain away.
It is as simple as that.
Practice
You may need some practice with the visualization. If
so, practice. It will be well worth it.
If you experience the pain again, run the process
again.
You can even anchor in a pain-free state!
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Every time I use this process to remove pain, as
soon as the process is done, I tap my thumb against the
middle knuckle of my forefinger. I call this my
“morphine button.”
Repetition of this simple maneuver will anchor a
pain-free state to the action of tapping the knuckle.
Now when I feel any pain, all I have to do is tap the
knuckle; and it is the same as running the entire
process—only quicker!
We desire a pain-free world; and it is our most
sincere wish and desire that this process will be of great
help to you, just as it has been to us and to many people
it has been our pleasure to serve.