The Role of Context in Pain Perception

Pain researchers have discovered that pain isn't really about damage to your body, right? A lot of the pain that we experience is anticipatory or predictive. It's trying to prevent us or give us an early warning signal to stop whatever you're doing in order to ward off pain. And ultimately it, as far as I understand, a desensitizing or maybe a normalizing of some pain perceptions to say, Hey, this is okay.