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Lightstream
EMDR Resource for Pain and Body Symptoms
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Pain and the Brain
Lightstream is based on 2 important ideas.
1. All pain is experienced in the brain, regardless of where the nerve signals originate.
2. Therefore pain is able to be influenced by neural network activity.
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"All Pain is Real Pain"
However, these 2 ideas are mediated by 1 other stipulation; all pain is real pain. It is very important that the fact that pain is a neurologically mediated experience DOES NOT result in a tendency to minimize pain or discomfort as “not real” or “all in my head”.
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Acute v. Chronic
An understanding of the differences between acute vs chronic pain and can help in being able to view all Pain both "as real" and "in the brain".
The following resources are excellent sources of information about pain and trauma.
Lightstream attempts to engage the brain and bodies natural inclination towards healing and repairing itself. When this system of instinctive healing can be engaged effectively, it can result in sudden and dramatic emotional and physical changes in felt sensations. Because pain is a neurological phenomenon, training our brain to encourage negative neural activity (pain) towards more positive neural activity can result in significant diminishment (if not the total alleviation) of many physically painful and uncomfortable sensations.
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Give it a try!
