Unlock The Healer Within

Our brain can turn pain on or off no matter what if it detects one danger over another. Like you can run on a broken ankle without pain if you are escaping a lion but when the lion is gone the ankle hurts cause now the brain alerts you to damage to be taken care of. The issue with chronic pain is there is no damage or it’s minimal but it’s become a remembered pathway similar to riding a bike and generated in the absence of tissue damage or greatly amplified. Candace Pert was the first in many ways to prove that further inflammation (i.e. the bone edema and swelling seen in CRPS) is also a remembered neurochemical pathway so you have to teach the brain it’s safe and there is no threat and then the pathways can reverse.
The area of the brain that lights up in chronic pain on fMRI is the limbic center of our brain which is the emotional center and this is why we have to learn to feel and release emotions cause when they are suppressed it is what lights up that loop more and keeps the pain cascade going
Those loops become sensitized through suppression, life stressors, childhood trauma, thoughts and beliefs on ourselves so the more we focus on the idea that something is wrong in the body, the further we get from the root cause. This was Dr. Sarno’s point and amazing discovery: think psychological, not physical and why he had such great success.
The same goes for many other disorders which include eating disorders, anxiety, depression, and more. This does not mean that at times treating the symptom is not the kind thing to do to at least calm down the overall nervous system, however the way out is the way in and therefore to eradicate the symptom we must treat the root cause.