A new view of pain as a homeostatic emotion
Pain is a real feeling, but that feeling does not necessarily reflect real damage in the body. Further, although pain depends on brain activity for its existence, this does not mean you can simply think pain away or that pain is your fault. Unfortunately, the processes which create pain are mostly unconscious and outside your control.
Todd Hargrove • A Guide to Better Movement: The Science and Practice of Moving With More Skill and Less Pain
Emotional pain stems from the body’s contraction in response to the loss or disruption of a loving connection.
Alexander Lowen • Joy: The Surrender to the Body and to Life (Compass)
Body Sense: The Science and Practice of Embodied Self-Awareness (Norton Series on Interpersonal Neurobiology)
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The scientists and physiotherapists Dave Butler and Lorimer Moseley put it elegantly:
“We will experience pain when our credible evidence of danger related to our body is greater than our credible evidence of safety related to our body. Equally we won’t have pain when our credible evidence of safety is greater than our credible evidence of danger.”
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