Pain Perceptions and Your Mindset

Psycology Today Article Link Here

This is something that we've always kind of known, in the sense that distracting yourself seems to help manage discomfort. What's really interesting is that the researchers found that the brain is wired in a way that supports positive thinking.

To clarify the wording of the Psycology Today article, this is what the study found:

Pain signals are sent to the brain through nerves in the spinal cord. The brain has to process the signals in order to tell your consciousness what is going on. That processing is done in one particular part of the brain. The study found that if you have thoughts, whether positive or negative, those thoughts are processed in a different area. That information is used to modulate how the 1st center processes the signals.

Here's one reason why this is important:
Massage Therapy is known to help people manage their pain. There's many ideas about how a massage does this, but there doesn't seem to be a lot of proof. This study implies that if Massage Therapy can help you be in a better mood, then you'll feel better about your aches and pains.This explains why people can feel better and in less pain even you ask for a completely different area to be massaged.
Massage therapy is able to help many people with many types of ailments.

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