Lin Health
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Some of the kits are helpful - the rest, not so much
Most people who enter the Lin program have some sort of ongoing pain from physical injury or disease. The essence of the Lin approach is: “Don’t worry! Be happy! Train your brain, which is over-focusing on pain, to knock it off, and your pain will go away.” The very first techniques that are shared, in “kits,” for self-calming, which can also be found simply on YouTube, can be very helpful: deep breathing, hand-on-heart, meditation, soothing mantras, journaling, distracting with your favorite activity, and others. The coaches I had were nice, well-intentioned people, but I felt they did not deeply analyze my complex medical and personal reports (and one had never experienced chronic pain herself): hence they were not ultimately very helpful. These coaches tended to give short shrift to my descriptions of pain symptoms and circumstances and repeatedly tried, with various approaches, to convey the message: “Tell that brain to cut it out! Tell yourself, and believe, that you are safe and well.” I too often ended up feeling not heard, not really listened to. There are certainly some useful tools in the kits, but overall, I think the Lin program is too narrow minded and simplistic and can feel dismissive and lacking in understanding for older people suffering with complex injuries and diseases – diseases which, in some cases, may be yet to be diagnosed.