A Mis calibrated Weighing Scale

There a lot of words about Mind to Body such as Nervous System Dysregulation, TMS, CS etc that I wanted to express in simple terms to my mind what I think is the cause of my symptoms so that can support a deep knowing of the root cause of my "ills". This is what came to my mind and the associated analogies - does this resonate with anyone?:

My body sends signals, and my brain amplifies those signals to an extreme degree — like zooming in to 500% in a Chrome browser. This amplification is driven by fear in the limbic brain. The brain then reads these amplified signals as if they were the baseline reality. As a result, the brain perceives the body as being in severe danger, creating a distorted sense of threat that doesn’t reflect the actual situation.

The higher the perceived threat, the more fear is generated, and the greater the amplification becomes. This is nervous system dysregulation: the amplification itself IS the dysregulation. A well-regulated brain could assess threats accurately, distinguishing real danger from false alarms. My dysregulated brain, however, is miscalibrated, unable to gauge threats properly — like a weighing scale that is so off that it registers a feather as heavy as a rock.

Sleep, or the lack of it, affects this calibration. Less sleep worsens the miscalibration, which in turn feeds back into the system, reinforcing the dysregulation. Simply removing stress signals isn’t enough to fix this. The brain must relearn and recalibrate itself, learning through experience that it has been misreading signals. Over time, this retraining resets the amplification — bringing the brain’s perception back to reality, like zooming the Chrome browser back to 100%.

The brain amplifies the body’s normal signals, then reads those amplified signals as if they were the real thing. In doing so, it ends up reinforcing its own distortion — it’s reading the echo of its own amplification. The result is a feedback loop where the brain has effectively miscalibrated itself. The sensations are genuine, but their intensity isn’t — it’s a mirror of the brain’s zoomed-in perception. As the brain learns safety and regains trust, it begins to turn the volume back down, recalibrating itself to match reality again.

In short, the mechanism at play is not about misfiring nerves, disease or physical damage; it’s a miscalibration of how the brain reads and interprets bodily signals. Understanding this is the key to retraining and restoring balance.

I used AI to formulate a Daily Brain Recalibration Reminder:

“My body’s signals are real, but my brain is amplifying them far beyond their true intensity. This is not a malfunction — it’s a miscalibration. Fear drives the amplification, making safe signals feel threatening. Like a weighing scale that’s off or a browser zoomed to 500%, my perception is exaggerated, not my body.

With rest, awareness, and experience, my brain can relearn reality. Each moment of safety helps reset the amplification closer to 100%. My brain can recalibrate, and I am guiding it back to balance.”

 

I think you have gone down a Brain/Body road (which is all physical) instead of Mind/Body. Where is the mind in your example? Mind = thoughts,emotions, personality. Sarno tells us to think psychological. I'm not seeing the psychological aspects in your posts. Blaming the brain is similar to blaming the body.

Where are you in your examples?

 

Indeed, you are correct, the root cause is psychological. In my mind the brain is the mind. The brain is hardware that houses the software which is the mind. It’s akin to referring to an iPhone which is the hardware plus software. In the same way, to me, the brain (iPhone) is the hardware (the meat) plus the software (the emotions, feelings, thoughts etc). I use both terms synonymously and interchangeably but my intention is the software element of the brain. It’s all semantics at the end of the day and to me brain is synonymous with the mind and everything else is the body. I prefer to keep things simple and this simplifies it for me. To me blaming the brain isn’t the same thing as blaming the body. Sometimes in my affirmations I say brain and sometimes I say mind. I treat these terms separate from the body. When I refer to brain/mind I refer to my limbic brain, when I refer to me I refer to my prefrontal cortex which is also part of my brain/mind. When I say my brain is learning it means the PFC is slowly becoming synchronised with the limbic brain because that’s the issue right now they are not synchronised. This is the way I interpret things as it makes sense to me.