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23. Patience and Thalamic Gating

The OptimalWork Podcast

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The Key to Chronic Pain Is Reaching Your Thalamus

If your thalamus is holding open a pain channel, you need to deliberately feel that signal for it to know in a sense that you're willing to feel it and not do anything about it. If you keep tuning into the signal and doing nothing to fix it, then eventually when you stop tuning into it deliberately, it just lets it shut. So I can say if you're deliberately now tune into the sensations underneath your feet,. Got it? And you can feel it. You can feel the ground, the amount of gravity, the kind of forces that are there. That is using a top-down unlocking of that pathway. Reaching into the thalamus for the signal. The

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