Drug-Free Alternatives for Chronic Pain Relief

Discover easy all-natural ways of feeling better while making simple and healthy, yet effective lifestyle changes; providing powerful pain prevention by strengthening your bodily defenses. Listed here are several drug-free ways to alleviate, and heal from chronic pain.

Sleep Alternatives - Mattress Toppers

As it is difficult to sleep when you are experiencing pain, finding ways to deal with lack of sleep can be worrisome. Sometimes a good night's sleep is as simple as adding a foam mattress topper over your existing mattress. The foam should be at least 2" thick or more to ensure an undisturbed sleep. Or buy a new pillow-top mattress, donating your hard posture-mattress set; did these ever help anyone's posture?

Sleep Alternatives - Mattress Frames or Risers

If your bed frame is too high, making it difficult for you to get into bed, try replacing it with a standard low-to-the-ground metal mattress frame, to fit the size of your mattress. If your bed is too low, making it difficult for you to get up and out, elevate it, by using riser cones placed under the box springs or mattress frame at the corners. You should be able to sit comfortably on the edge of your bed, before standing up or getting into bed.

Healing Nutrition - Eating Organic

Taking care of our health can prevent mental and physical injuries, as well as diseases and disorders from occurring in the first place. Sometimes by simply changing our diets from fast-foods, to growing and eating our own garden-fresh nutritious foods, we begin to feel more energetic and healthy as recommended in "How to Grow an EMERGENCY Garden".

Healing Nutrition - Proteins

Proteins are needed by every cell in the body (for repairs) so make sure to read labels, and eat plenty of high-protein foods such as meat, eggs, dairy, and vegetable combinations, as suggested in the "ABC's of Nutritious Cooking & Living a Healthier Lifestyle". Vegetarians can combine nuts, seeds and grains with milk, beans with rice, or mix several different vegetables together.

Healing Nutrition - Anti-Inflammatory Beverages

To reduce swelling around joints, make sure to drink enough water, and try adding lemon slices. Although lemons are highly acidic, they are rich in vitamin C, and will actually neutralize other acids once in the body, to reduce swelling throughout.

Drink anti-inflammatory and low-acid beverages such as anti-oxidant rich teas and fruit juices. However the most effective, non-acidic juice, registering lowest on the glycemic-index (measure of blood-glucose level after ingesting) is cherry juice, as recommended on the "Doctors" TV show (spring 2009).

Aleviating Stress

Catch up on nagging projects and don't put work off another day. In fact try working ahead whenever possible. This method of stress-relief or planning ahead, will also save you money, and is currently a very stressful part of everyone's daily lives (you are not alone).

Pain-Free Stretching & Exercising

Exercise regularly, even if it means simply stretching and performing arm or leg-lifts in bed, to keep your muscles flexible. This is also a wonderful trick for low-impact exercising, if you are unable to sit or kneel on the floor to exercise, just use your bed (instead of the floor) and exercise daily, if at all possible.

Healing Acts of Faith

Devotional readings can prepare a positive-healing mental attitude; as found in the book "Healthy, Wealthy & Wise Life-Affirming Scriptures" covering all aspects of family life, with an entire chapter devoted to health and wellness. And ask for healing prayers from friends, family, and clergy.

Communion and worship in prayer and song, on a daily basis, are powerfully healing acts of faith (as prescribed in the Bible) generating immunization from reoccurring pain. And finally laughter and hugs, which are so healing they should both have a recommended daily allowance of 10! Laughter and hugs will always help you feel better, which in turn will help you heal.