How the Mind Shapes Your Pain

Do you have a hard time recovering from accidents?    

Are you in chronic pain?

I used to be miserable and in pain with injuries. I remember twisting my ankle playing miniature golf, and I was out of my usual exercise routine and was depressed for weeks.  

Then a few years ago, I twisted my ankle in a step class and the first thing I did was used EFT (tapped).   I didn’t care what people thought and I tapped as I was taken to the emergency room and in the doctor’s office. I tapped on the embarrassment of having fallen, I tapped on how difficult it was going to be to get around, I tapped on the anxiety about not knowing how bad the damage would be, I tapped on the pain and worry about not being able to exercise (which is an important stress reliever and anti-depressant for me), and I tapped about the potential loss of income (as a group exercise instructor).

By the time the doctor saw it, it was a Grade I sprain. I went home that day on crutches, but with no pain, and no drugs.  By the evening I could hobble around without crutches.   Eight days later, I was teaching group exercise again, and 11 days later I was 100% back to normal!

Why did I have such drastic differences in my recovery?

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Are Emotions in the Brain or Body?

As a part of my doctoral training in Neuroscience, we learned that the amygdala was the seat of all emotions.   But as a person who suffered from depression, anxiety and panic attacks, I was well aware that that the emotions I felt were very strong in my chest and stomach, so I felt like something was missing in this explanation.

Since then, Western science has begun to expand its view on the subject. I’ve also learned that Eastern medicine has a very different take on the origins of emotions. There are interesting findings that we have from the Emotion Code, and body workers as well. Below I will summarize the different perspectives, and provide context to a unified understanding of where emotions come from, and where they go.

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How to Help a Person With Depression

Do you have a friend, family or loved one with depression?

Perhaps they aren’t ready to admit it, or they don’t believe that they can be helped.  Or perhaps they might not believe it’s worth the effort. 

Yet your loved one needs people like you to help them get out of the rut they are in. 

But what can you do?

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The Internal Workings of a Depressed vs. Healthy Mind

I find that many people who are depressed don’t know they are depressed, and can’t imagine how good life can be.  As a person that has been depressed most of my life, thanks to EFT, the Emotion Code and the Body Code, I now finally know what it feels like to be mentally healthy.   I thought it might be useful to both people who suffer with depression and those who’ve never experienced it, to know more about what it feels like to be on the other side.

When we are depressed, we tend to see things through a negative filter, but when we are happy, we have our positive filter on.  The consequences to our behavior and experiences can be huge.   Check out some of the scenarios below, and feel free to add any in the comments below!

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What it feels like to release a trapped emotion

This morning I woke up with something on my mind.  I can’t share the details, but lets just say I was rather unhappy about a recent event, and I was defiantly plotting as to how I’d respond.  Luckily I now know that when my mind is not at peace, that it’s not healthy for my mind or body, and there’s something I can do about it.  So using the Emotion Code,  I asked my subconscious if I had any trapped emotions that were contributing to my feelings about this recent event.   The answer was “yes”.  In fact the answer is almost always “yes!   Why?  Because our past experiences have a profound effect on our reactions to current events.

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