Joanne Smith spent years worsening her neck and back pain by constantly treating it with rubbing, heat packs, and stretches. When she stopped focusing on it and removed the fear, the pain gradually faded like a dimmer switch turning down. Attention and special treatments had reinforced the problem.
The more attention that you put on that body part, the more fear that you have attached to it, the more attention you give to it, the more special rubbing, hot-cold packs, special devices, special stretches, special things that you do for it, um, without realizing this, we are unintentionally reinforcing that there's a problem here. And what can happen is It will keep that cycle going, which is my biggest mistake, unintentional, with what I'd done with my neck and back for years and years and years. So the day that I stopped doing those things was the day that that began to diminish, diminish, diminish, diminish. It's like a dimmer switch. It doesn't happen in an instant. But it's like a dimmer switch that's been gradually turned down and down. So you kind of, when you're able to remove any fear attached to that and you know the truth behind it, it's a really empowering
