Chronic pain is all too common in Western society. Whether it is back pain, frozen shoulder or fibromyalgia, Dr. Maggie Phillips and Dr. Peter Levine, offer a real solution in their book, Freedom from Pain: Discover Your Body's Power to Overcome Physical Pain.
Pain starts from some kind of trauma, which can be physical and/or emotional, and unlike animals, humans tend to relive traumas repeatedly, either consciously or in the subconscious. Since the memory and emotion of a trauma trigger the same stress hormones as the original event, the fear often becomes locked in our tissues, resulting in chronic pain that arises or lingers after the physical body should have healed.
