In this chapter, the podcast delves into the concept of chronic pain and its impact on individuals, and explores the idea of retraining the brain to reduce or eliminate chronic pain. The chapter also features the experience of a participant in Australian Survivor who endured physical pain and investigates the connection between pain and the power of the brain.
Few sensations are as primal, as fundamental to our very survival, as pain.
But for a fifth of Australian adults, that useful protective mechanism lingers as chronic pain — persistent aching, searing, stabbing sensations, which can be incredibly stressful and debilitating.
What if you could dial down that pain — or even extinguish it altogether — by retraining your brain?