Interrupting the cyclical “fight or flight” pain response in the body includes naming it and feeling it. It’s not easy, it’s like breaking any habit.

Name it: Calm, peace, confident, Joy.

Feel it: What would that feel like in your body? Relaxed eyes? relaxed muscles, calm breathing, etc.

Do it: Practice peace in your body by intentionally relaxing your muscles, breathing deep, etc.

Deep Breathing can help us to give our brain’s a break from worrying about the past and future.

Shame is a fear response that isn’t based in truth. We know who we are in Christ. But when feel shame take over as our identity, it causes us to not be able to hear God’s voice clearly and causes us to ask the question “what if?”

This causes us to live in perpetual fear that makes our brains on edge looking out for ways we are “wrong”. Our brains perceive this as danger and send a warning to our body that we are not safe. BOOM. Chronic Pain.

In healing, we start to peel back the layers of our pain to discover what is dysregulating our nervous system.

When we people- please we get a hit of chemicals that make us feel good and acceptance.

But the cost of this is high. Often times in order to keep others happy and pleased with us, we are suppressing our thoughts, opinions, beliefs and emotions.

It causes our brains to be on high alert - looking for ways to avoid rejection.

This hyper-vigilance causes the brain to be hyper-vigilant. When it perceives we may not be in the good graces of someone it sends a warning signal of pain.

We are not perfect, in fact, and we are perfectly safe being flawed.

When we operate out of the fact that we have to earn acceptance, love and safety by being perfect, it causes the nervous system to be hyper-vigilant and in a constant state of earning safety.

The brain will constantly be looking for rejection and disapproval. This causes hyper-vigilance and pain.

The truth is, we are made perfect through the cross and we can stop striving. HIs blood makes us perfect, and therefore we can be safe in our imperfection.

In this episode I describe somatic tracking and I also lead you through a guided somatic tracking exercise.

Our brain’s use past experiences to predict how it will experience future sensations. This is called Predictive Coding.

But we can interrupt this cycle, in part, by avoiding Howard Schubiner’s 6 F’s:

Fear

Focusing on it

Frustrated by it

Figuring it out

Fighting it

Fixing it

In this episode, I discuss the following:

1. What the mind-body connection is.

2.How it causes pain.

3.How the fear of structural damage causes the pain itself.

4. How this becomes cyclical.

5. Why there is hope for healing.

Hi there, In this second video of my Thought by Thought series, I explain the mind body connection including what systems are activated when we are emotionally triggered and how that becomes chronic pain. I share a couple of my strategies for turning off the pain alarm and starting to live pain free.

Here is a list of some chronic symptoms and pain that can be healed through the mind-body connection.

Fibromyalgia, SIBO, plantar fasciitis, abdominal pain, IBS, Insomnia, stomach pain, foot, arm, leg, back, neck pain, vulvodynia, anxiety, depression, vertigo, dizziness, chronic tendonitis, crps, restless leg syndrome, food sensitivities, interstitial cystitis, TMJ, Repetitive strain injury, pelvic floor dysfunction, old injury with persistent pain, chronic fatigue, mold sensitivity, disc bulge, slipped disc, degenerative scoliosis, degenerative disc disease, weather sensitivities, chemical sensitivities, chronic lyme disease, and more.

In this episode I discuss how important it is to understand the following four things.

1.pain is produced by the brain.

2. pain is a protector that the brain sends as a warning of danger to us.

3 The brain can produce pain when warning us of not only physical harm, but also of emotional harm.

4. The brain can become hyper-vigilant to feeling unsafe.

The good news is that you can retrain this alarm and turn off the pain.

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