Chronic Neuroplastic Pain Recovery: The Hidden Threat

Imagine that you're in a gated,

Penned,

Fenced off area.

You're in that area living your life.

You're doing all the great nervous system regulation tools.

Breathing,

The meditation,

The movement.

All the great stuff.

Then,

We introduce A lion,

A tiger,

Something that really.

.

.

Puts your nervous system on edge,

Right?

Imagine a tiger.

Looking at you,

Licking their chomps,

Thinking about,

You're going to be my dinner.

In that fence with you,

There is no escape.

Then you try to implement your nervous system regulation tools.

You're doing the breath,

You're doing the visualizations,

Affirmations,

All the things.

Even the journaling.

And it's just not working so great.

In the face of constant threat,

The tools are going to not be able to sink in and work as well.

And in this setting,

In this situation of neuroplastic symptoms and neuroplastic pain,

That tiger that is in the fence with you can look like.

.

.

Many different things,

But it can look like the chronic pressure that you put on yourself to achieve,

To succeed.

The people pleaser in you that always wants to make everyone else happy.

It could be your inauthenticity.

I say this with so much love,

But when you are not expressing who you really are,

You are suppressing parts of yourself and part of your nervous system is always like,

Oh my gosh,

Is that part going to get out?

Am I safe here?

So just having a ton of.

External stressors in your life when everything is always going and you're always pushing and there's no opportunity to fully relax and take a break.

That tiger is always there.

That threat is always there.

Not only do we need to do all the great things,

We need to introduce all these great nervous system regulation tools,

But we also need to be very honest about our situation and look.

In the area around us and notice what is the tiger in our life?

What is putting our nervous system into a place of chronic threat and hyperactivation?