How Your Brain Can Control Pain

[04241991nj]

It's inaccurate to say "control" your brain. you can't control your brain, but you can control what you pay attention to. If you are thinking about your aching back, your attention is focused on the pain present there. However, if you decided to stop thinking about your back and focus of something else -preferable a pleasant thing- then you will have shifted your attention from your aching back. et viola! "less pain"! if you ever have to pee and can't, try thinking about sex! : P

[longlakeshore]

Within a few months of surgery that left me in severe chronic pain, I began daily yoga & meditation practice. A deep meditative state was the only place I could escape the pain. Only problem is that I had to stop to do other things like eat, sleep and work, during which the pain returned in full force. My point: brain exercises only go so far, then you are left in screaming pain, like when going to sleep. Close your eyes and hit the pillow and suddenly there's nothing to stop it.

[nineworklives]

There is a book with CD called "Dissolving Pain" by Les Fehmi and Jim Robbins that guides you through a "brain exercise" in which you imagine space in relation to the area of the body where you feel the pain (emotional pain can be localized in the body). It's effective. Fehmi's thesis is that pain is Mainly in the Brain.

[returnoftheramble3]

not if it's in your brain. I'm a burnt out schizophrenic, man.

[ariiroo]

sry for my english, this clip has been here for 2 years now, does anyone know what are the results of this study. I agree with the theory, I'm from psychology and I'm suffering of chronic illness (spondylitys)., But 1st IRM are still quite expensive today, 2nd yes bouddhist's meditation is like a self-control too (on our brain), so isn't there another way (cheaper) to visualize it ? I'm not sure that this method could shortcut totaly the pain, I'd like to see the results

[TwilightGreen]

@ariiroo Hi my name is Ryan Stageman, im a professional hypnotherapist and have helped many people with chronic pain issues. Pain is an emotional response just like happiness and can be controlled with hypnosis or meditation (self hypnosis). Self hypnosis does work but is very tricky to master. For someone who is in pain constantly i would suggest seeking the help of a fully qualified hypnotherapist, they can really help.

Hope thats helped :)

Ryan Stageman

Mind, Body & Power Hypnotherapy

[4EMF]

This is the way of our future... to be able to see that we can effect physiologically any organ with our thoughts (ESPECIALLY THE BRAIN) is what we should/could be doing with all this technology that we have at our fingertips. It would SHOW people STRAIGHT-UP how responsible each and everyone of us is for our own health, and our own lives. Ah-men.

[cyberdaemon]

My pain changes very little when i get happier.But mayority of it is in the precence despite the emotional state.

[rygrystaldrigrist]

Thats not new. its been around for over 30 years. If you teach a child to give themselfs insulin, you tell them to focus on one of their fingers or something like that and say the word ,,soften". Because to understand word our brains have to feel the meaning of the word to understand it.

[snake2006]

I tried it didn't help at all yesterday.

It got so bad that I got physically sick and had to leave work early, which dissappointed this girl I have been talking to as of late (although she understands why it got so bad).

I need to find a way to control it, I never want to see that look again from her. That is still eating away at me, even today on my day off.

[coconuts739158426]

this does work i tried it when i get a head ache i don't think about it and it goes away!

[sassymuzik]

duh.

[arlrocks]

tell us something we dont no

[nerdy8675309]

so if you dont think about it, it wont hurt?

[atmancloud]

Tell us something we already don't know... This has been know for many year, Buddhism, Mayan culture.

[stevobinko]

thanck you :)