TEDxAdelaide - Lorimer Moseley - Why Things Hurt

[TheComedyNight]

Really interesting.  Pain is an illusion masquerading as reality. Perhaps, its both ! One

[specialeeffexx]

Then I read Michael Brown's 'Presence Process' and I am still working the process and having great results. Michael is an Aussie too. He has an incredible story! Check out the Presence Portal dot com for lots of free downloads and info. I take NO pain meds now!

[specialeeffexx]

I read Dr. Sarno's book 'The Mindbody Prescription' a few years ago to deal with my spine injury pain. It helped. He references a Harvard study of pain. In a group of severely wounded soldiers in World War II, It was found that despite the severity of their injuries they often required little or no medication because their pain was substantially lessened by their becoming aware that they were still alive, being cared for and removed from the dangers of deprivation, hardship, and sudden death.

[specialeeffexx]

Ellen just had the host of the show 'Brain Games' from Nat Geo TV, on her show doing the fake arm thing! Search Brain Games on her site and it will come up. The Brain Games page on Nat Geo is awesome!

[guitarjeffmontgomery]

Groovy!

[EnterShikari179]

am not sure, is chronic pain down to body memory and if so why dont women only have two children, pain memory from the first child. Tissue damage causes pain but why does body choose to remember one operation and not another with ref to chronic pain ? Also meds do not always work, why ?

[robinbmunson]

Wonderful explanation - and very informative (as well as entertaining!) As a yoga teacher, I can really use this information to connect the dots. Thank you so much!

[20samp]

haha you got me at 6:20 too XD!

[Monflish]

Lorimer, we love you.

[rkwakernaak]

G-R-E-A-T talk! Funny and insightful!

[munkfachine]

I was at the TEDx Adelaide conference and this was one of the best talks of the day. There's another TED talk by VS Ramachandran where he talks about pain in phantom limbs. Can't put links in youtube comments but his talk is at TED dot com /talks/vilayanur_ramachandran_­on_your_mind.html

[Rybot9000]

I wonder if this ties into the frequent headaches people get from stress. Perhaps some of that stress is just maintaining "pain" networks designed to guide social behavior.