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Ever wondered why certain people suffer from persistent pain, usually in the same area(s) of the body?<\/p>

Perhaps you yourself experience recurrences of pain, get hit by unexplained symptoms or feel that your body is injured or damaged beyond repair.<\/strong><\/p>

The fact is, thousands of people suffer from some form of chronic or recurrent symptoms and find little relief through conventional treatments.<\/p>

This used to be a baffling and discouraging fact, however, today we know why people don\u2019t find relief through treatments<\/strong> that attempt to adjust or fix the body.<\/p>

It\u2019s because chronic pain has other underlying causes<\/strong> that go unnoticed, and most treatments treat just the \u2018symptoms\u2019 in isolation and not the actual causes!<\/p>

Why understanding Neuroplastic (MindBody Syndrome<\/a>) Pain makes all the difference<\/h4>

The interesting thing is, the large majority of chronic pain cases – from the<\/strong> common back pain, foot pain, sciatica and migraines, to the more debilitating symptoms of fibromyalgia, POTS and CRPS<\/strong> – have one thing in common.<\/p>

Multiple studies have found strong correlations between various forms of chronic pain, stress and trauma, especially adverse childhood events (1).<\/p>

A recent study found that 88.3% of participants with low back pain actually had what we call neuroplastic pain<\/strong> (2).<\/p>

This refers to pain that is NOT due to structural damage, abnormalities, illness or injuries. Instead, this kind of pain is caused by the brain (especially those regions of the brain where intense emotions and memories are generated and stored!).<\/p>

Here at MindBodyFood, we use the term MindBody Syndrome<\/strong> to refer to such symptoms, and we teach students how to identify them and how to overcome them.<\/p>

Why would the brain cause such pain, you might ask?<\/span><\/p>

The answers can be truly fascinating, and mostly have to do with our past traumas, programmed beliefs, the state of our nervous system, and our responses<\/strong> to triggers and day to day challenges.<\/p>

Luckily, although the brain can learn to generate pain or symptoms, thanks to the power of neuroplasticity, it can also unlearn this response.<\/p>

Chronic mindbody pain is not just in your head!<\/h4>

In case you\u2019re wondering, MindBody Syndrome pain isn\u2019t just \u2018in your head\u2019.<\/span> It is very real, in the sense that your brain can generate real physiological responses.<\/strong><\/p>

Think of a situation when you were very nervous and you started to experience an elevated heart rate. In this case, it is very obvious that your heart rate did in fact increase (a heart rate monitor would have confirmed this). But the \u2018trigger\u2019 was your perception of the situation as being stressful or worrying!<\/p>

It is the same in the case of mindbody pain, and yet the triggers behind it are often more subtle and complex compared to the above situation.<\/p>

Mindbody symptoms often come up when we feel deeply threatened and distressed<\/strong> – especially if we are unconscious of the extent of this distress. It is a cry for help sent out by the body when we\u2019ve been ignoring our deepest needs.<\/p>

Luckily, today we have practices and knowledge to help us get out of this pain cycle.<\/p>

In our MindBody Syndrome (TMS) Practitioner course, we teach you:<\/h4>