Pain neuroscientist Lorimer Moseley and his coauthor David Butler would pretty much agree with this. They say that your brain will create pain when it has more credible evidence you are in danger than it has credible evidence you are safe. By “danger" they mean “anything dangerous to your body tissues, life, lifestyle, job, happiness, your day to day function--a threat to who you are as a person” and by “safe" they mean “anything that makes you stronger, better, healthier, more confident, more sure and certain--within and about yourself.” Butler & Moseley, The Explain Pain Handbook Protectometer p. 16. Their approach to resolving chronic pain is to maximize the things in your life that that make you feel safe and minimize the things in your life that make you feel in danger. Their (overpriced) Protectometer book is intended to help you do that. They group things in life that make one feel safe or alternatively in danger into seven categories, the most powerful of the seven being "things you think and believe.” In particular, you need to stop regarding chronic pain as an indicator of damaged or defective body tissue. This meshes well with Dr. Sarno’s insistence that to recover from TMS you must understand and accept that your pain is due to TMS rather than something structurally wrong.
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