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Chronic pain disrupts the lives of more than 1.5 billion people worldwide, decreasing their quality of life and overall well-being. Chronic pain leads to diminished physical and cognitive function through a number of mechanisms, including emerging evidence for the role of autonomic nervous system dysfunction.
What is Pain?
Migraines / headaches / chronic pain can be extremely frustrating. They can be debilitating and leaving you feeling out of control and also in pain. Pain is designed to protect your body, to keep you alive: it tells you when you need to rest; when there’s danger and you need to stop that action, for example, if you touch something too hot and you need to move your hand away to avoid a burn; or when there is something wrong with your body that you need to pay attention to and seek medical help for.
When chronic pain comes into play, the nervous system is stuck in a ‘fight or flight’ response, meaning that these two systems are functioning on overdrive and are not giving out the pain signals in the way that they should. Pain can become the norm rather than used to induce ‘fight or flight’ - the brain is stuck in a loop of feeling unsafe.
EFT Tapping for Migraines + Chronic Pain
This is where Tapping can come in very handy, because EFT Tapping is used to switch off the autonomic nervous system response. Tapping sends a signal to the amgydala, which governs the parasympathetic and sympathetic stress response, and it signals that the person is safe and therefore safe to switch off the sympathetic Fight, Flight, Freeze response. This reduces cortisol and adrenaline in the blood but it also tells the brain it does not need to send the pain signals either.
When to use EFT Tapping for Migraines
As soon as you feel the familiar pain of the migraine or any other reoccurring pain in your body start tapping using the tapping points laid out below. If you are able you can tap along with me in the video below, or you can follow along with the words I provide written below. Or if you are out and about and don’t have the ability to follow along, tap on the points and say to yourself ‘I am safe’ on repeat. This is focusing on safety
Migraines, Chronic Pain and Trauma
I believe there is a link between chronic pain and trauma because the only two reasons we go into Fight, Flight, Freeze in the first place is a threat to our physical safety or a threat to our sense of self. It would be useful to start to notice when your migraines or bouts of chronic pain start. Can you find a trigger - is there a specific stress that is causing it? When did they start? Was anything stressful happening in the year prior to them starting?
Perhaps you need to go back a lot further in your life to identify the root cause - but I have found that there very often is a root event, experience or trauma that caused the brain to send pain signals in the first place. Using EFT Tapping in a private 121 session you will be able to identify the root cause and use Tapping and other techniques to release the trauma and stop the stress response from being stuck in the signal of pain. See here for how to work with me.
Further resources
If you are impacted by migraines or chronic pain I recommend listening to this podcast by Dr Chatterjee and Dr Howard Schubiner: open.spotify.com/episode/2OMf...
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7 дек 2022
