ALAN's POST on Another Thread:
"The purpose of mindfulness is to hone the ability to watch the thoughts, etc. and not get pulled in to the emotional response to the thought.
For example, let's say you have the thought, "My symptoms are never going to go away." The typical emotional reaction to that thought is fear, and the typical physical response to that is anxiety.
If you're practicing mindfulness meditation and that same thought comes up, the goal is to say to yourself, "Oh, there's that thought again," and then return your attention to the breath. So essentially you're watching the activity of your mind, and intervening before you have the emotional reaction or the physical response."
Alan, I found this post of yours someplace else but based on this what I understood from your previous reply is that, we want to reach a place where we don't give fear thoughts (pain related or not) any emotional reaction. That is when we can say our primitive brain FEELS SAFE?
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