Any type of pain including psychosomatic pain once initiated as an alarm or warning mechanism is specific to body parts and or emotional cognitive responses to life but once the initial alarm response has finished then pain can be in the brain. Electromyographic studies and fMRI studies converge on their information showing that muscular type pain and psychological pain (psychological meaning both emotional and cognitive) can be one and the same because the physiology is the same (based on current undertanding of physiological processes). Muscular pain involves brain nucelei such as the Amygdala and the Anterior Cingulate Gyrus which are invovled in trauma and stress responses. A pain that lasts cannot be psychogenic purely and nor can a pain that perpetuates be somatic purely, the longer pain lasts the more there becomes an overlap and neurological distortion of the pain origin. Eventually the root cause of a pain can be lost as pain simply follows a perpetual circuit that becomes accepted by your brain as normal. If a stimulus is there for long enough it becomes a new normal e.g. how humans become used to clothes; children want to take off their clothes to start with because they are not yet used to the feeling of wearing something next to their skin as they move around. When a person becomes incapacitated by drugs or alcohol they may revert to the child state and want to take their clothes off again. An irritation can be learned at any time and then stored for future use. Hence why in some psychological speak there will be mention of when we first learnt the coping mechanism or neurological iritation to be expressed in the right environment (a situation that reminds me of when I initially imprinted)  later in adult hood. We as humans are simply learning and being trained everyday of our lives whether we are implicitly or explicitly leading ourselves. We do not stand still in a neurological or physiological sense.

Viscerosomatic Pain

Pain fibres to the organs are stimulated by the sensory nerves to the organs that are activated when there is a sufficient change in the organ condition. The referral mechanism for organ pain will end up being muscular type pain. Meaning to identify an organ pain (organ pain in this instance means referral pain has occured without pathology or disease) clinically one must ‘clear’ the muscular pain that layers over the top of organ pain. Organs are also directly wired to the brain stem and can cause what’s known as vagus nerve bias. For example the stomach as an organ can be linked to feeling ok or even good (excitement, butterflies, full) and is wired directly into the insula a part of the brain that is involved in our ability to be ok with ourselves (when we are not ok we can comfort eat). When there is an organ invovlement in pain (nociception is the neurological name for pain, nociception can occur without any clinical pain) it can have an effect in our head, in our body and our sense of wellbeing. Perhaps why for over a thousand years Yogis and Qi Gong Masters pay a lot of attention to teaching organ based exercises to keep them and their students healthy. Perhaps only now medical science is able to validate these age old teachings. At Life Right we work through layers of pain and look to unravel the construction of pain levels. This process is as open and transparent as you are able to be with yourself and with your practitioner.