If anybody told me at the peak of my CRPS illness that I could rid myself of it by sitting on the couch and “doing nothing”, I would have been infuriated. I believed that I needed some serious medical intervention! My pain wasn’t just invisible pain, my hands were swollen, my hand muscles were contracted and wouldn’t release, I had Renaud’s Syndrome attacks every day.
Believe it or not, after I read Dr. Sarno’s book and understood that CRPS is a mindbody condition, it was exactly the meditation that helped me heal. It used to be considered by some a kind of New Age nonsense, until neuroscientists started conducting real experiments and observations and proved, with data in their hands, that meditation causes significant physiological changes and can be a powerful tool in treating anxiety, depression, ADHD, chronic pain, and many very physical symptoms associated with those illnesses.
Why meditation works? There are many psychological factors in meditation, but, if done right, meditation has a direct physiological impact on your nervous system. In short, meditation accesses your nervous system through breathing. Recently I found this great explanation by a neuroscientist Dr. Huberman of why meditation works. Check it out for yourself!
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