03.09.07
Mindbody
I’m often asked how to overcome chronic pain; well, for me the first notion thrown into my mental wastebasket was that we are “ghosts in the machine,” wherein the mind and body are two different entities. After years of buying into this culturally created phenomenon, I began to believe human beings are a unified whole that can’t be so readily separated. It’s often said that an infant’s ego and body are one in the same, as they haven’t yet accumulated mental associations and even conventional anatomy books recognize the human skin as the outer layer of the nervous system (i.e., your brain). It’s time we grasp the idea that our posture is also reflection of how we think and feel and that any true form of health can’t come at the expense of the mind or the body, but instead needs to embrace the unity of the two intertwined entities. Yup, this is the first step to overcoming chronic pain….
