Pain and emotions

If you don’t read the whole thing and want a sum up: Do emotion matter in health?

Yes. They absolutely do!

Someone asked me today:

“You’re all about the physical (and I love it)…. curious on your thoughts on how emotions etc (other forces) contribute to pain, chronic pain, etc…”

My answer:

Ok there is a bunch of studies on the connection between emotions and pain and I will add some of that in future post (you can look at the link below that is one of my favorite Ted Talk on the subject from Lissa Rankin : http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=7tu9nJmr4Xs)

Our emotion guide our action and can increase or decrease sensitivity. Think about stress and the effect in the sympathetic system.

Now, pain is a brain information that convey a message. (According to new pain science studies)

Mixed together the right way, you can strengthen your immune system and look 10 years younger. The other way around you could get sick on a regular basis or even create an autoimmune and look miserable or aged. Think about people you know in those two categories and how their emotion is affecting them and yourself sometimes during the day or during a longer laps of time. Listen to their words (do they lift/guide or slam/shame). Their action (healthy vs hurtful)

Another Ted talk I love about stress shows how your believe of “stress being good or bad for you” can lengthen or shorter your lifespan by 20/30 years…. 20/30 YEARS!!!! That is crazy!!! Just a belief!!! And it doesn’t matter if you actually have a lot of stress or not!!!! Just listen to Kelly McGonical!!!

Enlightening!

(https://www.ted.com/talks/kelly_mcgonigal_how_to_make_stress_your_friend?language=en)

And finally a Ted talk on the importance of treating our emotion more seriously from Guy Winch: https://www.ted.com/talks/guy_winch_the_case_for_emotional_hygiene?language=en

All of those and even more point toward the limit of the old western medical model and it’s occurring transformation, right now, as we speak.

Massage therapist, Acupuncturist, Eastern Doctors are onto that emotional balance and have been for a while now.

Treating pain seriously involves our civilization becoming more and more conscious about who we are, what we feel, the “ok” part of it all and moving forward.