Joanne Smith argues that pain isn't just physical but emerges from a bidirectional connection between thoughts, the nervous system, and the brain. Recognizing this mind-body link is where recovery begins for many people.
We were always told to look towards the body as the source, as the root cause of what's causing the pain or the symptom. But actually, this is what— why I call it the invisible link, because the invisible link, really, we don't know, we can't see this. But this is when the shift really happens, is when you actually see that there is a connection between thinking, So the thoughts that we have, the nervous system, the brain, how all of that operates, and the body— there's an invisible connection between all of those things. And this is where recovery is for so many people. It is where it begins, when they actually are introduced to this concept that pain is not purely created from a physical issue.
