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  1. B

    ‘Shooting the messenger’ & other ways the primitive brain avoids doing mind/body work

    ‘Shooting the messenger’ and/or 'avoidance of the messenger' and other ways the primitive brain avoids doing mind/body work: The lizard/reptilian brain (one's primitive brain) uses various tactics to avoid the emotional work necessary for mind-body symptom relief, especially when faced with...
  2. E

    Pain distraction techniques

    Hi - I'm new on here. I have longstanding issues with chronic gastric pain which has worsened considerably over the last 18 months. I also, as a result, tend to experience a lot of symptoms that I assume are caused by stress, and which induce intense anxiety verging on panic. I have found it...
  3. M

    protection and/or distraction

    Convincing someone that their pain is the result of a brain-protective strategy from some "dangers" may not be difficult. Another very different thing, by far, is to make understand that the pain could be due to a brain-distractive strategy from "negative", unbearable, buried, unfelt emotions...
  4. Cactusflower

    Distraction

    Some interesting information about distraction. 47% of people (result of some studies) are distracted at any given time. No data was taken of distraction before computers and smart phones. Distraction keeps us from being happy, and satisfied by taking our mind away from the moment. We may go...
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