The Number One Cause of Chronic Pain and What to Do About It
- Brainz Magazine
- 5 hours ago
- 7 min read
Written by Jotipal Kaur, Psychologist and Sociologist
Jotipal Kaur has 17 years of experience working with people to help heal physical and emotional pain. Her 6-month transformational journey takes people through a deep process of integrating grief, loss, trauma, and pain into resilience, strength, wisdom, and deeper love.
Have you been through a major bereavement or trauma in your life? Do you have ongoing musculoskeletal pain that doesn't go away? Have you been diagnosed with fibromyalgia? Or had an accident or injury many years ago that keeps you in constant pain?
When you go through a major bereavement or trauma, whether emotional or physical, it has a massive impact on your body and mind. You can become overwhelmed with emotions, and your nervous system becomes activated into fight, flight, or freeze. Your physical body can store shock and kinetic energy from an impact for many years, which gets stuck in tissues and organs.
The emotions from a traumatic event can be overwhelming, often causing anger, fear, or anxiety. As the weeks go by, you notice tension in your shoulders and back. You wake up in the morning feeling stiff. You bend down to pick up your bag, and your back goes out. You struggle to stand up straight. The pain is debilitating and exhausting. You wonder why, despite spending thousands on physiotherapy or chiropractor sessions, the pain comes back within a few days. You go for regular massages only to find that the pain and tension creep back in.
This is because you are not treating the root cause. The root cause is held in your subconscious.
What is chronic pain?
Chronic pain is defined as pain that goes on for more than three months or beyond the expected healing time. As with fibromyalgia, the cause is seemingly unknown, and the pain can persist for many years. However, there is a very definitive link between your emotions, beliefs, thought patterns, and chronic pain. Even with a physical injury, there is an emotional component to the accident and kinetic energy held in your body from the injury that needs to be released.
The research from Bruce Lipton and his book Biology of Belief shows that genes and DNA do not control our biology. There is an energy outside of the cell that influences the way the cell responds, emanating from positive and negative thoughts.
Your body holds memory
In her book Molecules of Emotion, Candace Pert wrote about how the body creates neuropeptides when we feel a specific emotion. These neuropeptides get released each time we have an emotional response. They lock into receptors on the cells of the body, causing tension and pain. What is interesting to note is that these molecules of emotion become addictive. With more receptors, the body ‘expects’ to feel more of that emotion, and so you get trapped in a vicious cycle. The more you feel an emotion, the more receptors you have, and the more neuropeptides are released.
Emotions that are not processed at the time of an event will get stored at a cellular level. Maybe a trauma happened, and you didn’t have the space or safety to process that event at the time. The body will store the memory in fascia, organs, or body parts for another time. It is these memories, emotions, and beliefs which cause physical pain.
Beliefs cause you physical pain
Have you noticed, when you are suffering with chronic pain, what your thought patterns are? Usually, there is a lot of emotional content going on, which adds to the body’s burden. Thoughts such as “I can't deal with this pain,” “Things will never get better,” or “I am trapped in my body.” These thought patterns are emotionally charged and will have an influence on your physiology.
As Bruce Lipton stated, “A cell's life is controlled by the physical and energetic environment and not by its genes. It is the single cell’s awareness of its environment, not its genes, that sets into motion the mechanisms of life.”
When you understand that every cell has an energy field, and that energy field is influenced by your thoughts, emotions, beliefs, and memories from your life, then you are empowered to create change. The field of epigenetics has backed up this claim, that our beliefs do rewire our genetic code.
How our perception creates your reality
You can have five people witness an event, and they will each perceive it differently. This is because each person is unique, having different life experiences and ultimately different beliefs about the world.
If you have had a lot of trauma in your life, it is likely you will be carrying beliefs such as “the world is dangerous” or “I am not safe.” You will perceive life through this lens. Your nervous system will be primed for danger, and you will mostly live in fight, flight, or freeze mode. This state can become normalised, so you don’t realise the level of stress you are holding in your body. When your nervous system is in this state, your adrenals will be in overdrive, which creates unregulated inflammation.
Inflammation causes pain.
Research has found that people with multiple personality disorder can have different health issues. One person with multiple personality disorder can carry different medical conditions depending on which personality is being displayed. For example, one personality may have cancer, while another does not. One personality may have diabetes, while the other will not. This shows that illness and dis-ease come from the mind.
When you shift your perspective and change your mind, you shift your physiology.
When memories are active and not passive
According to the Yogic Scriptures, the subconscious mind is a recorder and stores everything that has happened to you in your life. As the mind and body are one, the body stores these memories, emotions, and beliefs on a cellular level. Through the study of epigenetics, science also explains how our ancestors and their trauma have a direct impact on our health and well-being.
We are not a clean slate when we are born. We carry unresolved energy from our ancestors. This explains why a baby can have a deep fear of water without having any known trauma. These ancestral memories carry an emotional charge or are ‘active,’ creating neuropeptides that are released and locked into receptors on cells, causing pain and tension. Ancestral memories can be triggered by other memories in your own life, drawing the emotions to the surface. This is like an avalanche of unresolved energy coming to the surface after a traumatic event, some of which relate to your ancestors and are carried on a cellular level.
When you clear the emotional charge out of the body, the memories become passive. They exist without the emotional charge. There is no flood of neuropeptides and no associated health issues.
The mind as an electromagnetic field
Every living thing on this planet has an energy field. The study of Kirlian photography showed how living plants, animals, and people have an energy field which can be photographed. Semyon Kirlian observed an invisible charge when electrodes came close to the skin of a patient during an electrotherapy session in a hospital in the 1930s.
Similar studies have used an electroencephalogram to read the electromagnetic field of people during different situations. A research participant was placed behind a wall and wired up with electrodes. Another person came to sit behind the wall, unbeknownst to the research participant. There was a change in the activity of their electromagnetic field when another person was sitting in their energy field, even if they didn't know they were there. This shows that our energy field is picking up information all the time, even if we are not consciously aware of it.
The role of energy medicine and quantum mechanics in healing chronic pain
Quantum physics postulates that particles which make up physical matter do not exist in static form. They are literally appearing and disappearing in different locations. An experiment showed how a light particle is a wave until it is perceived, and then it becomes a particle. What is proposed from this is that human consciousness affects quantum mechanics. When we observe something, it begins to change form. This is what we are doing in Energy Medicine. We are observing what is out of balance and what is ready to shift and come back into harmony and balance. The mind is an energy field that pervades the whole body, so your thoughts, emotions, memories, and beliefs are interacting with each cell in every moment, sending messages of harmony or discord.
Energy Medicine works on the premise that everything is connected, and healing is the body’s natural state. Every cell is connected and communicating with every other cell in the body. The intelligence of the body is always looking for harmony and balance. This intelligence is present in every cell. Through stress and trauma, the cells ‘forget’ their natural state, which creates dis-ease.
During a session, the practitioner interacts with the energy field of the client, picking up subconscious blocks that are reflected through the body using bio-muscular feedback. They are observing what is out of balance and ready to shift. They are interested in addressing the root causes of chronic pain or other health conditions, rather than addressing the symptoms. By shifting the energy field around each cell, clearing trauma, emotions, beliefs, or memories which are stored in the electromagnetic field, this shifts the person’s physiology and opens the space for profound healing to begin.
Are you ready to heal the root cause of your pain?
Living with chronic pain takes a toll on your mental health. You don't have to do this alone. Being aware of your emotions and beliefs can be the first step in understanding what is at the root of your issues. However, if you are curious to find out more and are ready to take steps to transform your life with more vitality, ease, joy, and inner freedom, where you can be free of pain, then get in contact for a free 30-minute consultation today.
Read more about the 6 Month Transformational Journey here.
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Jotipal Kaur, Psychologist and Sociologist
Jotipal’s healing journey started 27 years ago due to trauma and chronic pain. She was diagnosed with a scoliosis at the age of 12 and then had a horse-riding accident which fractured her spine, leaving her with an undiagnosed spondylolisthesis until the age of 25. The chronic pain she endured caused her to seek out many treatments, but the pain kept coming back. This prompted her to explore the MindBody connection and what is at the root of physical and emotional pain. This has shaped her whole life and started her on a journey of self-discovery. Through healing her own grief, pain and trauma, she has devised a powerful program to empower people to move beyond their own pain and find joy, love, freedom and vitality in their own lives.
