It’s all just… Energy?

To heal chronic pain, we have to learn to not take it personally. This is an important step but not easy! So for this week, I will ask you to notice the way energy or the Gunas feel in your body, no worries, I will explain. This is a great way to disengage from the story of pain and allow you to begin to experience the full spectrum of sensations and feelings.

In the pain research, we see that people who have chronic pain have a really busy part of their brain known as the default mode network. This is an area that spins up our biography any time we have a moment of quiet in normal peeps, but spins out of control all the time for those of us who live with daily pain. Regulating that DMN seems to be really helpful though. But first we have to learn to not take pain so personally, which is what this practice is all about.