Then there’s the story. What we tell ourselves: What has happened? What it means? What’s the cause? The future? All are highly convincing yet often wrong.
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The misunderstanding of pain could be the most important reason why persistent pain has become a leading global health burden & why treatment outcomes are so poor.
With chronic conditions such as persistent pain, fibromyalgia, CFS, ME and more recently Long Covid, people are still dismissed when their tests show nothing of note.
The idea that a negative test (or tests) means that there is nothing wrong is ignoring the plain fact that there is something wrong.
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The person has just explained how they are feeling. Have they been heard? Many haven’t and that is unacceptable. Even some doctors have not been believed by other doctors!
Firstly, you cannot see pain on a scan or in the person. There is nothing to see.
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And just in case you are thinking brain patterns, you are seeing a brain pattern not pain. Those coloured pictures in studies are also created to show certain things that the authors want you to see, so read the method carefully…
Initial session to meet, clarify what is happening for you in your world, and your picture of success.
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Growth sessions are those when we look at practices, tools, exercises, strategies and importantly, how to best implement them in your world. To make a difference. To create the conditions for your growth and to shape a positive future.
Both are helping to question existing ideas. For example, enactivism takes us beyond the brain as an explanation for pain.
Pain is of course, not in the brain.
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Enactivism sees a person with a lived experience (embodied) within a lived world (embedded), acting in particular ways (enacting) with emotions and an extended mind.