Role of Patanjal Yoga Sutra in pain catastrophe management
AUTHOR(S): Shantanu Mistri
ABSTRACT: Pain Catastrophizing may be defined as a negative emotional tendency to exaggerate the threat or seriousness of actual or anticipated pain. In India more than 37% people of age more than 45 years suffered from different types of pain. We recognize these pains when they appear in physical level (Vyadhi), but they are linked with psychological imbalance (Aadhi). When disorders due to psychological and emotional imbalance mix up with different types of pains, it generates the tendency of pain catastrophizing. As per the aphorisms of Patanjal Yoga Sutra avidya, asmita, raga, dvesha, and abhinivesha are the five causes of all pains and miseries. In the shlokas many ways are also given to be devoid of those pains and miseries by restraining our mind-stuff (Chitta) catching the web of thought from the external world.
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