The concepts taught at the pain program you participated in seem really valuable and can be helpful in dealing with other huge stressors.. When I read the "omit pain behaviors" one, it reminded me of an article by a former science writer for the New York Times on how the brain can get rewired by stress, by bad feedback loop. So trying to eliminate pain thinking (and defuse awareness thereof?) can help prevent that maybe.

Brain Is a Co-Conspirator in a Vicious Stress Loop

By NATALIE ANGIER

"Reporting earlier this summer in the journal Science, Nuno Sousa of the Life and Health Sciences Research Institute at the University of Minho in Portugal and his colleagues described experiments in which chronically stressed rats lost their elastic rat cunning and instead fell back on familiar routines and rote responses, like compulsively pressing a bar for food pellets they had no intention of eating.

Moreover, the rats’ behavioral perturbations were reflected by a pair of complementary changes in their underlying neural circuitry. On the one hand, regions of the brain associated with executive decision-making and goal-directed behaviors had shriveled, while, conversely, brain sectors linked to habit formation had bloomed.

In other words, the rodents were now cognitively predisposed to keep doing the same things over and over, to run laps in the same dead-ended rat race rather than seek a pipeline to greener sewers. “Behaviors become habitual faster in stressed animals than in the controls, and worse, the stressed animals can’t shift back to goal-directed behaviors when that would be the better approach,” Dr. Sousa said. 'I call this a vicious circle.'"
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1lfZuV2qAktbcksdkYbzPRCUUz4n80L8q_R8gj5EVEtA/mobilebasic