Chronic Pain Management with Mind–Body & Ayurvedic Support -Vedic Approach

drug-free effective ways to work with pain signals, not against them.

All the answers are within you

Ancient Yoga Principle

Vedic teachings believes that, ‘Within us exist many untapped latent potentials’.

Some call it the Medicine Within.

When it comes to chronic pain, where pain itself becomes a disease, modern neuroscience and pain management is now acknowledging the role of mind or psychology.

Vedic approach coupled with Enhanced Relaxation Technique (ERT), provides a way of tapping into these latent potentials to effectively manage chronic pain, by accessing and amplifying personal resources.

Dr Ainslie Meares (Australian Psychiatrist) believed that facilitating an extended state of profound stillness or a state of focused absorption is very healing at multiple levels.

Select Ayurveda therapies, can help one to attain such state, to access the hidden latent resources available within every individual and help reduce the suffering due to chronic pain.

Answers to commonly asked questions

  • All pain is real.
    This may seem obvious, but people with chronic pain (especially with Endometriosis and pelvic pain) are sometimes told, “the pain must be in your head" or are treated as if their chronic pain is exaggerated. They feel they have to prove their chronic pain to their friends, family, and doctors.

    Chronic pain has not always been well understood until recently. The medical community is starting to understand that if pain is no longer a function of a healthy nervous system, chronic pain itself becomes the problem.

    When the pain itself becomes a disease than a symptom, it becomes chronic.

    Pain related to Endo has limited treatment options in modern medicine. Other chronic pain is often treated as polymyalgia and immuno-suppressents are commonly prescribed as treatment.

  • People with severe, chronic pain know how it can utterly disrupt and damage one’s life. Chronic pain can be cruel—making it hard to enjoy even the simplest daily activities or carry out an exercise routine.

    Advanced neuroimaging has shown that chronic pain—unlike acute, or short-term pain—can cause structural changes in the brain that add to the risk of cognitive problems as well as anxiety and depression.

    studies of brain physiology have shown the central nervous system can change, based on a person's experiences. Medications and health conditions such as anxiety and depression can play a role in these changes.4

  • If you have been experiencing chronic pain for quite some time, have tried many things, with not much relief, but are ready to explore alternative approaches, Vedic approach offers a ray of hope.

    Aiming to reduce the suffering associated with pain, it will help you attain good relief and, mainly empower to you to manage your pain effectively in day to day life.

    Being drug-free, it is free from side effects associated with pronged dependence on pain medications.

    Vedic approach also help to reduce anxiety, depression associated with chronic pain and may help strengthen the nervous tissue when coupled with some herbal remedies.

  • Vedic approach is a multi-modal approach composed of various tools and therapies.

    Generally 3-5 sessions are required. Each session involves providing select Ayurveda therapies and discussing some tools to help alleviate pain perceptions. Each session evolves progressively to suit the unique needs and the changes experienced.

    First comprehensive session is about understanding what causes pain and how pain translates to suffering. It also includes looking at diet, psychophysical and socioenvironmental aspects of your life in general.

    Select Ayurveda therapies are provided in subsequent sessions, to help alleviate the suffering and pain.

    ERT is another modality that is sometimes used. It is based on suggestive process which starts with inducing a state of deep relaxation, stillness in your mind and body. In such absorbed state, one can respond experientially on multiple levels, can access and amplify their latent resources and utilize these to manage pain effectively.
    ERT uses many techniques like creating anesthesia or analgesia, perceptual alteration of pain, decreasing awareness of pain, to name a few.

    With Vedic approach, you will walk away with some tools and techniques which you can practice daily, can access anytime on your own as well.

    The Vedic approach is holistic, encompassing all 3 dimensions of our lives- body, mind and soul and, focuses on achieving healing on physical and emotional level.

  • It's easy. Please book a consult session using link below. The practitioner will make a evaluation and assessment to understand history, causes, description of pain and many other details like daily routine, lifestyle etc.

    A treatment plan will be formulated with mutual understanding.

  • The short answer is it depends on patient's condition, stage of condition, responsiveness and receptivity.

    Someone with 5 years of pelvic pain history may need lesser sessions than one with 2 years history if they are more receptive.

    In general, we recommend 3 to 5 sessions which involve a bodywork therapy, coupled with consultation.

    It can be same bodywork therapy in each session or may change in each session as per individual needs and response to treatment.

    The gap between sessions may be weekly or fortnightly.

    Each session generally provides more relief.

    To give some examples:

    For rheumatoid arthritis more sessions are required than osteo arthritis.

    A younger patient may need lesser sessions than an older patient.

    It's not what many want to hear but the complete pain-relief is not possible in many chronic pain cases, especially those resulting from auto-immune or endo like conditions. The achievable goal is to reduce pain perceptions, reduce suffering due to pain and let you have more control over the pain than the pain controlling daily life.

  • Patients should continue their existing modern medicine (Allopathy), pain management treatments including medications they are prescribed.

    Vedic approach is not a replacement or substitute for such treatments but works in a complimentary way, as part of integrative methodology for chronic pain management.

  • We also need to clarify that Vedic approach is no magic.
    Many a times, patients explore such alternative therapies as last resort, after having tried various things and they wish relief asap. Vedic approach will work, but it takes time, patience and commitment on your behalf.

    We not promise to complete freedom from chronic pain. But if one remains committed to the treatment plan, they can experience significant reduction in suffering and as pain loses its control on daily life, possibly a good pain-relief.

    Results may vary from person to person.

  • Vedic approach can not remove cause of pain in some cases. e.g. if pain is due to structural issues like adhesions resulting form surgeries, Vedic approach can not heal adhesions.

    Pain related to cancer is not claimed to be relieved completely by Vedic approach.

    As a disclaimer, Vedic approach in nut shell does not claim to cure pain or relieve it completely.

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“Body and mind are home to disease and happiness.
Pathogenic factors within the body are Vata, Pitta, Kapha while those in mind are Rajas and Tamas.

Balanced utilization of mental faculties and objects of sense organs is the cause of happiness, which is achieved only by taking recourse to patience and (Vedic) knowledge.

Healing at all levels is facilitated when we live in peaceful harmony with our individual nature and, with Life.”

— Acharya (Guru) Caraka

“Vedic approach changed my outlook towards my pain history and hence life.”

— Jane, Newcastle

“Sachin walked patiently with me during my journey. Pain has no control over me anymore, I feel free.”

— Margaret, Central Coast