How emotional pain can really hurt
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New brain scanning technologies are revealing that the part of the brain that processes physical pain also deals with emotional pain.
And in the same way that in some people injury can cause long-lasting chronic pain, science now reveals why some will never get over such heartbreak.
Emotional pain can take many forms; a relationship break-up or social exclusion, for example.
But it does not get any more extreme than losing a loved one, as Scottish broadcaster Mark Stephen did.
In July 1995 he was driving a tractor while hay-making and accidentally hit his young daughter. She died shortly afterwards.
Mark's grief was overwhelming, he says.
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crob80227
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@Alex_French
I hope you aren't writing that inside a Valentine's Day card.
;-)
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crob80227
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Alex_French
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what is love but a biological trap, forcing you to perpetuate this giant human blob that feeds upon the earth and gives back nothing.
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Alex_French
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alfitude
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Alex_French:
that's beautiful. Going on my facebook update for sure!
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alfitude
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bamboobanga007
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Very true, I get ulcers when I'm stressed. Not pretty.
- 3 years ago
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bamboobanga007
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islek
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I don't know how it was exactly determined that the psyche and the body were ever separate entities and should be dealt with as such, because we were all created as one whole being.
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islek
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iameam
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islek:
We are created as one whole being, but there appears to be an aspect of ourselves that separates itself from itself. Does that make sense?
Some might call that ego or a mind made self...
Pardon me... I have to go take some LSD, repeat some mantras, and cleanse these doors of perception.
See you in the morning :)
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iameam
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singrrr
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I am a strong beliver that emotional pain that is not delt with can lead to physical pain as the mind controls the body...
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singrrr
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iameam
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singrrr:
When you say that the mind controls the body, does that mean that your thought are making your heart beat? How about a reflex, swatting a mosquito for example, is there a thought that says "Left limb... swat mosquito now"?
Who is really in control of this body?
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iameam
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singrrr
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singrrr:
it's more of, if emotional pain is not dealt with, it will manifest itself physically later, IE getting sick more often or insomnia and the like....
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singrrr
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iameam
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The body has an innate intelligence. When thought are not in harmony with action, the body reacts, generating energy... E-motion. That energy, emotion, if it is not expressed or processed, gets stored within the body. The spiritual teacher, Eckhart Tolle refers to that stored energy as "The Pain Body".
There's more to it than that, but that is the basic principle.
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iameam
