Mind Over Back Pain

"I had a problem in the late 90s with my neck. I woke up one morning with a frozen neck and could not move it anymore than just a few degrees," he says. The idea of your mind influencing your body and vice versa is actually quite intuitive when you think about it, very easy to demonstrate. For example, when people get embarrassed, they flush often. That is a classic example of a physical reaction to an emotional response. "It's fascinating that these syndromes are almost always ignored because language can sometimes be such a difficult hurdle to get over."

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