Can Psychotherapy Help You Control Pain?

[sargentodiaz]

Okay, here’s a piece that states pain is as much in your head as it’s real in your body. Another faux cure hype? I have to wonder but it might help people wean themselves off of opiods.
“Pain is a danger signal that also can warn of us tissue damage, but sometimes these danger signals can be activated in the absence of real danger,” says Alan Gordon, the director of the Los Angeles Pain Psychology Center, where Golson was treated. “It’s almost like a kinesthetic hallucination. It’s hard to not buy into these messages that your brain and your body are giving you.”
The goal of the therapy is to get the patients to reinterpret the sensations they feel as non-dangerous.
Yoga to cure your pain?
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[Keesha]

Why not? Mindfulness! If our minds are what make us feel pain why can’t we train our minds to desensitize ourselves to it.

 

[RadishRose]

Some people walk on hot coals and don't feel it.

 

[Lara]

I don't know about your mind but MY mind would need some serious help to do anything that powerful :bowknot:

 

[Olivia]

Well, that sounds about right to me. If you have pain and no physical cause can be found, then maybe it's psychosomatic and some type of therapy can help. And even if the pain is real from a physical problem, then some kind of way to cope with it can help in that case, too.

 

[C'est Moi]

I have a friend who attended pain management classes for several weeks in an attempt to wean herself off of many pain medications. Part of the classes dealt with the "mental" aspect of pain and taught methodology and technique...mostly breathing, meditation, and "positive thinking". She found it interesting but worthless.

 

[jaminhealth]

I believe getting ADDICTED to daily meditation and using a word for your mind to rid the body of "some" pain is beneficial...but people start but fall off the wagon of meditation. It's powerful.

I think even a Silent meditation of say 30+ minutes daily can lift pain from body.

 

[Falcon]

I believe that a person can control SMALL things. For example: Getting rid of spasms of the diaphragm (hiccups) and small
pains. Stop thinking about it and get your mind on something else.

 

[jaminhealth]

I believe that a person can control SMALL things. For example: Getting rid of spasms of the diaphragm (hiccups) and small
pains. Stop thinking about it and get your mind on something else.

Easier said than done for a lot of us, John. Me for sure..pain is always there and I'm Not busy busy at this time in my life...thanks.

 

[Butterfly]

A similar thing was recommended to me a while ago when I was suffering from referred nerve pain. I gave it a serious go and it didn't help me at all. Also tried recommended hypnosis and biofeedback and neither of those helped. The biofeedback DID help with my rising blood pressure which came as a result of the stress caused by the pain, though.

 

[sargentodiaz]

Pain is important for the health of your body. It alerts us when something is wrong.

But, back to the basic theme of the OP. The mind's control over the body has beenknownsincetime before history. Shamans, medicine men/women, and other holistic practioners regularly use it.