How AI Helped Me Fix 10 Years of Chronic Pain (And How It Can Help You Too)
https://x.ai/bot/rrgu_NZPufQ4D00pF9oAW
For more than 10 years I had chronic knee pain from an old sports injury.
Multiple surgeries. PT. Injections. Meds. Knees over toes guy. Nothing worked. Stairs, walking, squatting all hurt every day.
In 2020 @jposhaughnessy told me to research Dr. John Sarno. His idea that a lot of chronic pain starts in the mind actually made sense to me, but there was no real playbook to do it yourself, and the doctors who used his methods weren't local and were expensive. So even though I had the knowledge, I wasn’t able to act on it.
At the end of 2025 as I started noticing AI getting dramatically better and more useful every day so I asked a chatbot if it could help me with my pain and it pointed me to Nicole Sachs' new book Mind Your Body which was published a few months prior. I read the book and then for the entire month of December I committed to her protocol for 30 days: 20 minutes of journaling and 10 minutes of meditation a day.
Even though she had the protocol in her book, I felt like it was still lacking. So I built out my own protocol that gave daily writing prompts and the why behind it based on her and Dr Sarno’s teachings.
Fast forward nearly a year later and I am essentially pain free. It’s doesn’t consume my life anymore.
I was going to share this information previously to try to help others but I’m kinda glad I didn’t because now with @bot I was able to build an entire protocol on this to act as the guide that was never there. And the best part is it’s completely free.
The protocol in the link walks you through the same 30 days: daily reminders, guided journaling prompts, quick pain check-ins, 10-minute meditations, and answers to "why does this work?"
I’d love for you to give it a try or send it to a friend or family member who suffers from any type of chronic pain or mental disorder to see if it can help. The only downside is you spend 30 minutes of your day doing something that can only improve your health.
Also please provide any feedback of additional features or bugs and I will push an update.
NOTE: THIS IS NOT MEDICAL ADVICE. CONSULT YOUR OWN DOCTOR. I AM JUST SHARING WHAT WORKED FOR ME (FOR FREE).