The Way Out: A Revolutionary, Scientifically Proven Approach to Healing Chronic Pain

With this in mind, it is interesting to consider the many stretching techniques that incorporate neurological “tricks,” such as PNF, contract/relax, post isometric relaxation, reciprocal inhibition, etc. Looking at these techniques through the lens of the central governor, we can see them as ways to convince the nervous system that the movement is

Healing, he told us, depends on experiential knowledge: You can be fully in charge of your life only if you can acknowledge the reality of your body, in all its visceral dimensions.

Our impulse is usually either to try to deny our pain, by suppression or self-medication, or to get caught up in dwelling on it through rumination and worry, allowing it to take charge of our lives. Psychological flexibility empowers us to accept our pain and live life as we desire, with our pain when there is pain.

ingesting psychoactive substances, to name a few. Of these various methods for altering one’s way of being, modern medicine has accepted only the use of (limited, i.e., psychiatric) chemical substances. The other “coping” methods continue to find expression in alternative and so-called holistic approaches such as yoga, tai chi, exercise, drumming,