The Mind-Body Connection
Woman with a Migraine Headache "The issues are in the tissues." This is what I tell my clients who are struggling from emotional stress. They come in with back pain, migraines, trigger points and neck cramps that linger, worsen, and flare up with emotional stress. Many ask me "what's wrong" because there seems to be no pathological root to their pain. And that's just it: the cause is not always physical. Our relationship to pain is emotional and psychological. It is the mind-body connection. You and I can have the same injury (let's use a paper cut, for example) and yet, we will each have very different relationships with that experience. I may dwell on "why did it happen?", "It hurts so much when I touch it!", "When will it go away?", and you may hardly notice the injury. This is quite different than saying "it's all in your head". There is definitely a link. In 1977, American psychiatrist George L