Pain in the Brain<\/p>\n
Where is pain felt?\u00a0 Where is it registered?\u00a0 Where is it really experienced?\u00a0 Pain seems to be experienced solely in the spot where it was inflicted.\u00a0 We burn our finger, we feel pain in our finger.\u00a0 I believe there is enough scientific \u201cknowledge\u201d out there to indicate that when pain is triggered in an area, the signal is sent through nerves to the brain, it is registered in the brain and a reactionary message is sent back through the same nerve system to the triggered area.\u00a0 That would explain why, in simpler terms, a child does not notice the pain of a scratched knee while they are still playing; however, once they notice the injury, or someone points it out for them, the child feels the immense pain, begins to wail uncontrollably until they receive a bandage and a kiss.\u00a0 It may also explain why a guy (such as myself) doing a chore from the \u201choney-do\u201d list doesn\u2019t notice the scratch on his hand until his darling wife draws attention to it; however, once he notice the injury, the guy feels the immense pain, wails uncontrollably until he receives a bandage and a kiss.\u00a0 The brain was previously occupied by something more important to register the pain of the injury.\u00a0 It was there, but the concentration of the involved act was more intense than the pain signal.\u00a0 It wasn\u2019t until other systems became involved that the brain had to notice.\u00a0 The visual input (seeing the scratch), the emotional input (the reaction of others), the change in focus (the activity being stopped), all play an important role in noticing the pain.\u00a0 With chronic pain, there is also the mental anguish; the emotional suffering (feelings of helplessness, the worry that it will never end, etc), the lack of sleep, the decreased physical energy that makes up\u00a0 vast majority of the pain experience.<\/p>\n
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Outside the counselling room, my boy and a bunch of us were out tobogganing.\u00a0 He, on a seated racer type sled (a G-t, I remember them being called) went down the hill, caught some air and landed hard winding him and bringing some intense pain that really only guys can truly associate with.\u00a0 As I was sledding with him, I was also at the bottom of the hill.\u00a0 He was in great pain and could not walk up the hill.\u00a0 I could not see myself carrying him waaaaaaay up that hill so I suggested that we hypnotise him.\u00a0 He was game.\u00a0 I put him in a trance, introduced some suggestions to him about pain and comfort (I truly forget what suggestions I did at the time), and he was able to move enough to walk back up the hill. In the clinical setting, I was able to teach a client how to use self-hypnosis and a technique called glove analgesia while in recovery from surgery without the side effects of pain medication.\u00a0 Basically, the process involved having an automatic trigger to go into trance, the mental numbing of her hand and then transferring that numb sensation to the desired area.\u00a0 Another client had chronic, ongoing pain in her shoulder.\u00a0 It turns out that with some questioning under trance, it came out that by \u201cgiving up\u201d the pain, she feared she would be \u201cgiving up\u201d the memory of a special person in her life as a car accident was the last memory she had of his individual (no, not a death, but a loss just the same).\u00a0 We all experience pain differently, depending on the meaning we attach to it, the emotional reactions we pair with it, and of course, our ability to manage the varying intensity.\u00a0 Remember, pain is important.\u00a0 It tells us when something is wrong.\u00a0 But outside of that, it holds to purpose.\u00a0 There are ways to lessen the impact it has on us.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Pain in the Brain Where is pain felt?\u00a0 Where is it registered?\u00a0 Where is it really experienced?\u00a0 Pain seems to be experienced solely in the spot where it was inflicted.\u00a0 We burn our finger, we feel pain in our finger.\u00a0 I believe there is enough scientific \u201cknowledge\u201d out there to indicate that when pain is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1001005,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5405","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-counsellingandpsychotherapyincanada"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n