The Opposite Is True for Pain Management

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Pain feels worse when you're thinking about it and when you're focusing on the body part that hurts. The opposite is also true. When stress and anxiety are low, your brain sends a message to that pain dial lowering pain volume. So pain feels less bad when you are relaxed and calm. Thing two is mood, emotions. Pain feels lessbad when emotions are positive; thing three is attention.

PAIN. What is it? Where does it come from? And how can we hurt less? Which hurts more, a kidney stone or heartache? Why does chronic pain persist? Can we turn down our pain dials? To answer these huge questions, pain psychologist Dr. Rachel Zoffness enthusiastically explains the brain, pain and how to retrain it. She is an unabashed neuronerd and a ray of hope in a field that is misunderstood, neglected and under-explained. A true life-changer of a person.

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Her Pain Management Workbook on Bookshop.org and Amazon

Her website, which has a resource page with a ton of free info: zoffness.com

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Sound editing by Jarrett Sleeper of MindJam Media & Steven Ray Morris