Chronic Pain

Pain, as an acute reaction, is very useful – it helps protect people from touching hot stoves or walking on a broken limb and making it worse. However, for many of my clients, they are experiencing pain way beyond the original expiry of an injury, or have pain levels far more severe than expected for an injury, or there never was a physical injury in the first place. This has now become chronic pain. In this case, their brain has started sending false pain messages to their body and has got stuck in a neurological loop that keeps repeating. Their experience of the pain is very real – it is definitely pain – but it is being caused by false messages and faulty pain gateways through their body.

If you have acute pain, you are best to go to A&E. Chronic pain, in which your Doctor has already ruled out medical causes, responds very well to mind-body techniques. At Empower Therapies, you can attend a four day course called The Switch. You will learn how to calm the stress response to help your whole body relax and regulate itself better, including regulating your pain gates better. You will learn how your thinking patterns are exacerbating your pain gates and you will use techniques for interrupting these thinking patterns to help rewire your neural pathways back to a normal pattern. You will also release past emotional trauma that is now causing a tension pattern in your body that is causing pain.

If you don’t feel quite ready to jump into a four-day course, you might like to start with our webinar series, which gives an overview of mind-body health, the role of stress and thinking patterns, and some basic techniques to start using on yourself. This webinar is a general approach, rather than being specifically about chronic pain. For some people, it’s enough on its own, and for others, it is their inspiration and lead-in to doing the full Switch