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The beliefs you have about your pain, including the causes, are shaping your very experience of pain.

And then what you do, based on your beliefs about your ability to deal with it.

This is why understanding your pain is so important.

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* pain is a perception shaped by many factors: past experiences, beliefs, mood, context, environment, expectations, attention.

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* pain experiences are poorly related to tissue/body state

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* a pain experience is the brain/person making best sense of their lived world in that moment, using past experience and contextual factors to make that inference.

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* pain cannot be reduced to anything less than a whole person experience in a lived world.

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* pain is subjective—you can’t see it under any circumstances: scans, brain patterns, nerve impulses. None of these are pain.

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Understanding pain is the first step to overcoming pain.

That is why we make sure that you have that understanding—making sense of your experiences and any tests/investigations etc.

Then we move onto practical ways of you shaping a positive future.

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