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63: How to Listen to Your Body (Addendum)

Feminist Survival Project

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Is Your Body Signaling as if You Are Still Sick?

If there's a global pandemic, if it is a traumatic injury, those are all things that reduce your brain's threshold for interpreting a sensation as painful. This is why it's called neuroplastic pain. It exists physically in the infrastructure of the relationship between your peripheral system and your central system. And yet it is all in your mind because your mind is like your embodied brain. So yeah, yeah, all pain happens in the brain, regardless of the nature of the injury that activated it.

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