Joanne Smith argues that recognizing your thoughts as neutral and letting them go can reduce chronic pain, even without actively seeking a cure. She shares stories of people who improved their symptoms by changing their relationship to thought rather than pursuing treatment.
And there were people that were recovering from that who had this new understanding about how thought created everything, like everything that we feel was based upon having thought, and they were able to let go of thoughts and see them as neutral. And there were people that were making incredible— they didn't even go in there to think that they could ever recover from chronic symptoms and chronic pain. So they weren't looking for a cure and they just got something really special that they weren't actively seeking. Deep down, I was seeking. Deep down, I was like, oh, maybe this could be the next big fix. Maybe this could make my life easier. Maybe this could help with getting some reductions in pain and symptoms. But for some people who genuinely weren't looking for that or actively seeking that miraculous outcomes,
