How is our body communicating with us via pain?
What is it trying to tell us?
What determines pain?
To understand the connection between Emotion and Pain we must dig a little deeper.
In my research, I have found that the International Association for the Study of Pain defines pain as an unpleasant and sensory experience associated with actual or potential tissue damage.
Furthermore, experience is everything that happens inside us caused by the activation of brain cells and
whenever we activate a muscle, think, have an emotion, dream, believe, feel pain or pleasure we activate our brain cells, which fire up and send information and energy to other brain cells.
Additionally, potentially damaging stimuli are detected by nerve endings called Nociceptors. Spinal Cord Nociceptors, (which are also called ‘Pain Receptors’), receive and pass on sensations to the Thalamus in the brain. The Thalamus decides if these sensations are dangerous based on beliefs, emotions, personal history, or previous experiences.
If the Thalamus detects danger a message of pain is sent down the spinal cord to be felt in the body. If the Thalamus determines there is no danger there is no pain felt in the body.
When we are actually in danger, the Fight-or-Flight Response in our body is triggered, which releases hormones such as Adrenalin and Cortisol to fight or flee quickly.
But with the fast and busy lives we live today the Emotional Brain evolved and the ‘Fight-or-Flight’ or also called Stress Response is triggered by emotions alone.
As social beings, we worry about fitting in, which could be perceived as dangerous or stress.
What is more, the Stress Response, being no longer limited to physical danger, becomes overactive and increases by habits.
Ongoing stress causes physiological changes and uncomfortable emotions, which may themselves set off the Stress-Response, and cause pain as a way of alerting the organism as a whole to danger.
In a nutshell:
The brain determines, based on our previous experiences alone, which information or situation is dangerous or stressful.
There is only pain felt if danger is determined.
Emotions alone trigger the Stress-Response, which releases Stress Hormones such as Adrenalin and Cortisol, which are known to cause havoc and even damage to the body. The body may then respond with pain to alert the system to danger.
We now know that emotions are contributing to your pain.
You may have already discovered what was going on in your life before you started feeling pain with the little exercise at the end of the previous post here.
In that exercise, you determined what happened or what was going on in your life before your pain started.
Here is the next step:
Ask yourself:
~How did I feel?
~And most importantly, how does the pain make me feel emotionally?
–Take a pen and a piece of paper or a notebook
-To help you remember, you may want to close your eyes and take a few deep breaths.
Write all answers down.
Great! You are halfway through getting rid of pain!
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Speak soon,
Lucia
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