Reframe Your Pain with this One Concept!

One simple concept can help you reduce your fear and panic surrounding pain:

Understanding that pain is simply a signal: it's not an indicator that physical damage has happened! 

Your pain receptions light up when a threat to your body has been detected. These receptors can't tell the difference between physical damage (such as a bad fall off your mountain bike) or instability in your internal environment (such as a pelvic rotation creating instability in a joint or your spine).

We often get in our heads that our pain is from a single, physical point of injury: such as "my low back hurts because I have a herniated disc." This can keep us in fear, in a negative spiral that we "are broken," or make us believe the only way we can get out of pain is my fixing this assumed-to-be damaged area.

This can close your mind to other possibilities and solutions!

I encourage you to think about your pain as your body doing exactly what it's supposed to be doing: protecting you from harm and letting you know when something is off. You body is trying to HELP you! If you can also look at your pain as simply a signal, you can train your brain to down-regulate and think: "ok, this is just a warning. Time to figure out what's off!"

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