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It's an insanely high statistic of how many people will experience chronic pain in their life
And it's defined as a pain that's persisting longer than three months
As opposed to like acute pain
You got a boo-boo put a patch on it you're better
You're so right about the stigma of attaching the mind to it
Everything about consciousness and experience and thought
The signaling of pain has to go through your brain in order for it to be processed and experienced
I'm not saying its all in your head
But it literally is all in your head

When we talk about mind and emotions we sometimes either loose people
Or they think you're saying its all in your head
That's not actually correct
I'm going to relocate pain from the body to the brain
When your back hurts its so easy to believe that pain lives exclusively in your back
And if you go to a doctor they will do 762 procedures
But here's what science tells us
Pain never lives exclusively in your body
Pain is constructed by the brain
Its not all in your head but it is in your brain
I want to give you evidence for that
Phantom limb pain is when someone looses a limb
And you continue to have terrible pain in the missing body part
If pain lived exclusively in the body no leg should mean no pain
Of course body contributes too
There's this two way traffic between your brain and body 100 per cent of the time
Because your brain is connected to your body 100% of the time
If you don't believe that body and brain could be connected
What do you call butterflies in your stomach or a gut feeling
You feel these things because thoughts are either reenforcing them or are sparking them
But there's three parts of the brain in particular that construct the experience we call pain

There's your prefrontal cortex and that's the part of the brain responsible for what you're focusing on
There's your cerebral cortex which is the part of your brain responsible for a lot of things but also thoughts
And your limbic system it's your brains emotion center
What that means is all the sensory messages from your body they go up your spinal cord
They filter through your limbic system your emotion center before they become the experience that we call pain
And what that means is that pain is both physical and emotional 100 per cent of the time
Neuroscience tells us that's true

We now have established that pain is constructed by the brain
What we know about the brain is that the brain is always changing
There's a word for it it's called neuroplasticity
What it means is the pathways in your brain are like the muscles in your body
The more you use them the bigger and stronger they get and the less you use them they atrophy
If the brain can change pain can change
We have known this for forever
The 1960's Melzack and Wall the Gate Control theory of Pain
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