Tag: pain relief

Your Brain Has Been Working Overtime

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Reading Time: 3 minutesBy Denise Billen-Mejia, MD (retired), Consulting Hypnotist     If you live with chronic pain, you have probably been told — or at least made to feel — that something is wrong with you. That your body has broken down. That your brain is misfiring. That the pain is somehow your fault, or in your head, or something you simply have to manage. I want to suggest a different way of looking at it. Your brain has been working overtime. Here is what I mean by that. Pain is not…

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Directing Awareness, Shaping Neurology: Exploring the Potential Role of Consciousness and Quantum Effects in Neuroplastic Pain Relief

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Reading Time: 2 minutesWe know the brain rewires neural pathways based on repetitive experiences and behaviours. As some theories suggest, if consciousness plays an active role in collapsing quantum potentials, directing awareness could physically reshape neurocircuitry. For instance, through practises like mindfulness, visualisation, and affirmations, patients can break latent mental associations that sustain the pain and form new empowering configurations. Meditation could calm overactive threat detection signals and build pain regulation circuits. Approaching pain with acceptance rather than aversion may lessen fight-or-flight responses and decrease sensitisation. Reframing self-talk could retrain habitual thought patterns…

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