Patient was instructed upon practicing pain migration technique for pain management as follows:
- Select a comfortable place, as you need some isolation, to practice the technique of pain migration.
- Make yourself comfortable by either sitting down or lying flat.
- Start doing slow and deep breathing and focus on the rise of chest and abdomen during the inspiratory phase of the breathing.
- Hold the breath for 3 seconds at the end of inspiration.
- Perform slow and prolonged expiration and focus on the fall of chest and abdomen during the expiratory phase of the breathing.
- Continue to practice slow and deep breathing, while practicing the technique of pain migration.
- Initially, identify a non-painful site you wish to move your pain into.
- Mentally try moving the pain from the source into the non-painful body site, to help better coping with pain.
- After you gain control with the technique of pain migration, try migrating pain from the non-painful body site, out of your body and into the environment around.
- This mindful migration of pain and associated discomfort from the pain source into the surrounding environment, will help associating your mind with diminished pain intensity, thus helping with pain management.
- Since mindful migration of pain from the source could be difficult when the pain level is high, start practicing the technique of pain migration when the pain level is manageable and gradually move on to practicing it with high pain levels, as you gain more control on practicing the technique.
