Over 100 million North Americans suffer from chronic pain. 50 million chronic pain sufferers are partially or totally disabled by chronic or long term pain. Chronic pain costs business and industry approximately 70 million workdays per year. Pain is the number one reason for doctor visits. Pain sufferers endure the highest levels of negative stress .
Stress is the leading cause in breakdown of the immune and nervous systems.
Stress is the leading cause of disease and eventually death. According to Dr. J.S. Segal, Ph.D, head of Stress and BioFeedback at Temple University, healthy Americans experience over 5000 negative stressors per day. F or each stressor the body experiences 1500 physiological changes. Stress is the major contributor of mental and emotional breakdowns . Individual perception and interpretation evolves from reliance on past experience and false or outdated belief systems to interpret situations or events out of our control.