Hypnosis for pain relief works well enough that some dentists provide it as a service for their clients as an alternative to anesthesia. This suggests that the human brain is perfectly capable of not feeling brain if correctly prompted, even if there’s a real cause. The suggestion that pain is learned, and a signal and that if the signal is correctly processed, the body can release the pain is common suggestion when doing hypnosis for pain relief.
The question might not be so much, whether pain is caused by a material cause that your doctors pointed to on the fMRI’s but whether it’s a useful reaction to feel pain in the circumstances that your doctor identified.
If your body gives pain responses as a downstream consequence of poor posture causing inflammation, the body sending a “Problem—Please Fix” signal is not unreasonable.
Where it becomes a problem is that when the pain itself leads to increased tension and that increases the problem instead of helping the problem. On the other side, there’s also the aspect of accepting that the problem is there and won’t be fixed and while that problem isn’t ideal, it’s acceptable to persist without fixing so the body can release the pain signal.
Simply focus on whether the pain is caused by a material reason or not, might miss the core dynamic.
Hypnosis for pain relief works well enough that some dentists provide it as a service for their clients as an alternative to anesthesia. This suggests that the human brain is perfectly capable of not feeling brain if correctly prompted, even if there’s a real cause. The suggestion that pain is learned, and a signal and that if the signal is correctly processed, the body can release the pain is common suggestion when doing hypnosis for pain relief.
The question might not be so much, whether pain is caused by a material cause that your doctors pointed to on the fMRI’s but whether it’s a useful reaction to feel pain in the circumstances that your doctor identified.
If your body gives pain responses as a downstream consequence of poor posture causing inflammation, the body sending a “Problem—Please Fix” signal is not unreasonable.
Where it becomes a problem is that when the pain itself leads to increased tension and that increases the problem instead of helping the problem. On the other side, there’s also the aspect of accepting that the problem is there and won’t be fixed and while that problem isn’t ideal, it’s acceptable to persist without fixing so the body can release the pain signal.
Simply focus on whether the pain is caused by a material reason or not, might miss the core dynamic.