Pain -
a physical mental interdependency

Certainly you have already made this annoying experience too. You cut your finger and realise a painful feeling that can be very strong, gradually diminishes and disappears after a while. It is awkward indeed but nature hasn’t invented this in order to annoy or excruciate you. Contrariwise pain is an important, vital “alarm equipment” that messages injuries and dysfunctions of organism and wants to put countermeasures into operation.

However: Certain kind of stress or the concentration on an important event can affect an insensibility, so that injuries contracted “in the heat of the battle” are not felt to be painful. Even acute organic pain is not a definite “warning-light”, no objectively ascertainable process that appears the same way all the time. Our sense of pain is strongly depending on mental action primary on the subjective valuation of body signals. More than ever this applies for chronic pain that has lost its role as a meaningful “early warning system” anyway and often no clear organic damage can be associated with it. Even though the very complicated physical mental interdependencies are only partly researched so far, the numerous medical and psychological studies have definitely proven: Primary chronic pain can be often improved by psychological influences especially by suggestions.

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