Joanne Smith explains how intense physical symptoms like migraines often stem from your nervous system misinterpreting a danger signal. Instead of panicking, you can reassure your body that it's safe, which gradually calms your system and reduces symptom intensity.
So yeah, remind yourself, once you know what it is, once you know what is the root cause, where the symptoms are coming, how it's being generated, and that if your body is reacting to those things, those stressors, believing that they are legitimate danger and the alarms are all being raised with inside your body physically is alarming you, once you can separate the two and know actually There's no need for a panic. I am actually safe. There's no need to, um, respond in a huge amount of fear. And remember, the goal isn't just ignoring what's going on. We're not— it's impossible. You can't. When you're having a migraine and you're having, you know, really difficult symptoms, challenging things going on, it's not about ignoring What's going on. Um, but it is about understanding, reassurance, going back to the clarity about what is this. And actually, the goal is to stop, um, treating it like an emergency, because a lot of people struggle with that at first. But once you get better at not responding in that way, naturally things begin to quieten down as time goes on. And it can take time.
