Lesson 5- The 7 Most Overlooked Causes of Pain

Welcome to lesson number five of The Seven Most Overlooked Causes of Body Pain & What You Can Do About Them Today series.

Let’s get right to it!

Let’s face it pain is, well… painful and being in pain can affect your emotional outlook or your mood. A less thought of reality that has been shown scientifically to be true (go ahead and search online for studies if you don’t believe me) is that your emotions or mood can affect to what extent you feel pain.

It’s a no-brainer that if your back hurts, you feel crabby and agitated – not a new concept right. But when you’ve had a bad day at work, your ankles might feel especially sore and achy even though as far as your physical activities are concerned, your day was just like any other.

You have the ability, although it can be difficult, to make a choice to change your mood. And according to SCIENCE if you are successful in doing this you will see a reduction in pain. Another scientifically proven fact is that smelling things you perceive as good decreases your pain levels and the smelling of things you perceive as bad actually increases your pain. Listening to pleasing musical tones has been shown to also have the same affect.

So when you are “in pain” it REALLY is beneficial to listen to your favorite music, put on your favorite perfume and make a choice to be happy and get “out” of pain.

Along this same line, of correlating ones emotions to pain, there are also scientific studies that show that emotional issues can actually manifest themselves in the form of physical pain to you.

You’ve probably seen the TV commercial for some anti-depressants where the narrative voice asks, “Where does depression hurt?” and the answer is given “everywhere”. Even major pharmaceuticals are convinced of the correlation between mental and physical pain.

If you have unresolved emotions it is possible they could be showing up in your life through means of physical pain because you were otherwise ignoring them… and they want your attention because they want to be resolved.

I encourage you to do a little investigating within yourself to discover where your pain is really coming from. Is it emotional? Is it from repetitive motion? Is it from your intake of certain food and drink? Is it from an old injury? Or is it from a combination of some of these things or a yet undiscovered culprit.

I hope this new information is helping you on your journey to the pain free you, you once knew!

Take care of yourself and be WELL!

Barbara M LaDrig LMT, NCTMB
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Please note this is my opinion and not to be taken as medical advice, I am not a doctor.