Pain physical and emotional are closely interrelated
Last reviewed: 23.04.2024
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American scientists, in the process of researching human feelings, found that the pain threshold of a person directly depends on his mental state. Simply put, happy and contented people live easier and more tolerant physical pain than those who are concerned about the experiences. This dependence is traced because both emotional and physical pain are processed in the same part of the brain that sends signals to the body.
Self-confidence, self-sufficiency, a sense of joy and necessity also affects the perception of pain. The idea arises that if a person is happy, then he does not have time to pay attention to unpleasant sensations and focus his thoughts on physical pain. Internally calm people usually have the patience to endure pain without unnecessary inconvenience.
Also, feedback is also noticeable: scientists have discovered that anxiety, a feeling of intense fear or self-doubt can cause severe physical pain. Surely you noticed the stitching pain inside, when suddenly you heard a loud sound in the dark room. It is also not without reason that they say that everything is compressed from fear: if you listen to the body, you can notice an involuntary strong contraction of the internal organs at the moment of fright, which causes painful sensations.
See also: Sorrowful pain
You can see that people who are insecure, as well as people with low self-esteem, are more likely to be more prone to chronic illnesses than those who live happily and do not worry about trifles.
Also, the researchers found that the lack of understanding, both himself and others, can lead to the appearance of periodic, with nothing unrelated pain sensations. People who feel needed and in demand are freed from such feelings.
Such an experiment was conducted: ten strangers were asked to choose from the list of personal human qualities 2 those who, in their opinion, should speak about them most vividly. Then the experimental people got to know each other, talked, they had to fill in the same questionnaires about each other: write a few qualities that, at first glance, suited interlocutors. Thus, scientists received two lists of personal qualities of each participant in the experiment: the first is what he thinks about himself, the second is what other participants think of him.
The study showed that those people whose opinion of themselves coincided with the opinion of outsiders are more confident in themselves and, therefore, are less susceptible to sudden pain, and also have a higher pain threshold. Those participants who made up their own opinion different from those around them could hardly endure physical pain and complained of periodic attacks of fear and uncertainty accompanied by painful sensations.
Scientists advise you to work on yourself, educate yourself in self-confidence, perhaps attend training for personal growth or a psychologist, as inferiority complexes, excessive fearfulness can cause not only emotional experiences, but also physical health problems.
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