Understanding the body on a deep level is required to heal from any disorder, including sciatica pain. Your body is based on two basic principles of science, the first of which is chemical: it is made up of chemical compounds and works through chemical interactions. The second is electric. You are an electric being. Your brain is beating with electrical signals, and the cells in your heart beat in sync due to an electrical current produced by cells called pacemaker cells. But there is a third part of you that is not scientific, and it is your spirit, your essence, your soul, if you will.
In your essence you are pure and perfect. But dealing with the human condition, including the pain, suffering, and guilt that pervade our lives, the lives of our loved ones, and the lives of countless others we hear about can be a burden on our souls. Our negative emotions can overpower our desired happiness, and situations in our lives can become overwhelmingly difficult to handle. So hard, in fact, that we can inadvertently hurt ourselves by suppressing socially unacceptable emotions, such as anger, resentment, and guilt, and turning them into physical pain.
The emotional component of pain is so misunderstood that an entire medical industry, pain management, is having a heyday prescribing drugs, surgery, and physical therapy simply because of our inability to cope with life’s stressors. The only way to truly become healthy and pain free is to understand how your emotions, especially those you may have repressed, may be contributing to your pain.
The human body has an amazing ability to heal from injury. Even horrible wounds can heal without lingering pain. Our nerves are there as early warning devices to warn us of potential harm, but they’re not meant to keep screaming long after the danger has passed. Consider an ankle sprain. It really hurts, maybe for a few days, or if the sprain is very bad, a couple of weeks. But remember that time you sprained your ankle years ago…it still doesn’t hurt, does it? Or your scraped knee when you were 5 years old. What about that? It still hurts? No, it wouldn’t make sense for it to continue to hurt. you have healed Sciatica pain is like that. There’s no reason for your sciatic nerve to keep screaming, “The sky is falling! The sky is falling!” And it doesn’t matter if your doctor has found a problem with your lower back, such as a herniated disc. It would be important for you to know that several research studies of people’s back X-rays have shown that herniated discs are not indicative of pain. They X-rayed people with and without back pain and found just as many cases of herniated discs in people without pain as in those who reported pain.
Discs in the neck and lower back have also been known to begin to compress early in life simply due to gravity. Compressed discs do not cause pain by themselves. They have just become a convenient scapegoat for bread. Your pain, if it has become chronic, is more likely to be caused by repressed emotions of anger or resentment. Dr. John E. Sarno, a back pain specialist, discovered that nearly 90% of his patients could cure themselves of their chronic back pain, including sciatica, simply by understanding that their unconscious mind was causing the pain. , not their bodies. In many cases, their bread ran out overnight. Dr. Sarno believes that our unconscious mind, which also operates our bodies on autopilot (think breathing, blinking, and heart rate), takes emotional pain and creates a physically painful condition by constricting blood vessels, thereby reducing blood flow. of blood to the area. , who reacts by shouting a warning of pain. What this pain is really saying is, “Hey, we need a little more blood flow down here. We need more oxygen.” But all you feel is pain.
We are complicated creatures, but we make our lives so much more difficult by blaming everything outside of us for our pain and suffering. I was cured of 16 years of chronic neck pain once I understood the concepts of mind-body healing and applied it to my own pain. Sometimes I have neck pain, and when I do I check my unconscious. Why am I stressed? What is making me angry? I have learned to ‘let go’ and this has done wonders for my pain management. I don’t take pharmaceutical pain medications, or treat it like a physical problem by getting massages or sitting in hot tubs. I know that if the pain comes, it is emotional and I treat it. Try it yourself and see how it works for you.