What Is Empowered Relief? Part 2

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03:24

What Is Empowered Relief? Part 2

by Marina London

Type

talks

Activity

Meditation

Suitable for

Everyone

In this track, you will hear Marina continue to talk about a new evidence-based, scientifically studied pain relief treatment called Empowered Relief. If you're someone who lives with chronic pain and the doctors aren't able to figure out what's wrong with you, or you've been told that your pain is all in your head, you'll want to listen to this track. I'm here to tell you that the concept of "it's all in your head" is much less about sanity and much more about what your brain is telling you. Make sure you check out my playlists and tracks to learn more about this powerful technique.

Pain Relief Mind Body Connection Chronic Pain Management Neuroplastic Pain

Meet your Teacher

New York, NY, USA

Meet your Teacher

New York, NY, USA

Transcript

Hi, My name is Marina London. I'm a licensed clinical social worker and I'm an expert in the treatment of chronic pain using a new technique called Empowered Relief. To understand Empowered Relief, We need to start with a quick painless lesson in brain science. I promise to keep it simple. You've probably heard of an MRI, That big scanner that takes pictures of your insides. Well, In the 21st century, Scientists develop a more advanced version called an fMRI, Which can actually show the brain in action, Like the difference between a photograph and a video. And what they saw when they watched people's brains changed everything we thought we knew about chronic pain. Here's the big discovery. For most people, Chronic pain isn't actually coming from damage in your body. It's coming from your brain. Specifically, From learned pathways. Basically, Your brain has gotten into the habit of firing off pain signals, Even when there's no real threat. Scientists even found that chronic pain is processed in a completely different part of the brain than the pain you feel when you, Say, Stub your toe. That kind of ongoing learned pain has a name, Neuroplastic pain. Now I know that might sound surprising, Maybe even a little hard to believe, So let's look at three real studies that back this up. The first one took place in Lithuania. Researchers wanted to study whiplash, That neck pain people often get after a car accident. The thing is, In Lithuania, Whiplash wasn't really a known concept. People there had never really heard of it. So researchers interviewed over 200 people who had been in rear-end collisions. The result? Not a single person reported lasting neck or head pain from their crash. Compare that to Norway, Where whiplash was well-known and widely discussed, And 70, 000 people claimed to be disabled by it. Same type of accident, Completely different outcomes. The difference? What people expected to feel. The second study was even more striking. Researchers in Germany set up a fake car crash, A simulated collision where no one could actually get hurt. And yet, A month later, 10% of participants were still reporting pain they believed came from that crash. No real injury, Real pain. The third study, Published in the prestigious New England Journal of Medicine, Looked at the MRI scans of people with no back pain whatsoever. What they found was shocking. Nearly two-thirds of them had disc bulge, Bulges, Herniations, And other structural abnormalities. These were just normal signs of aging, And they weren't causing any pain at all. A Swiss study confirmed the same thing. There's often no relationship between what shows up on a scan and how much pain someone is actually in. The bottom line? Pain is real, But its source is often the brain, Not the body.