Joanne Smith explains how your brain prioritizes survival over comfort by constantly predicting threats based on past experiences. It can generate persistent pain even when there's no actual physical damage. Recognizing this mismatch between what you feel and what's actually wrong lets you break the threat pattern.
I'm noticing a lot with nutritional requirement, as an example, about how my brain is going to predict based upon previous examples, and always making predictions. That's its job. It don't really have a job to make sure that you're comfortable and having a great experience all the time. It's all about survival, protection, and that kind of thing. So it's trying its best, keeping you safe, predicting what's gonna happen based upon what happened yesterday and the day before and the week before and the year before. Um, and as I said, you can research this. It's called predictive coding, um, or a conditioned response too. So it's just doing what it's supposed to do and based upon what it thinks. And it can just get really on a repeat pattern. So having an awareness, again, going always back to the point of recognising that if you've checked out your symptoms and if they've not found an official structural or physiological issue, then we know that frequently there's no damage in the body. We can have pain, we can have symptoms, but we can have no damage in the body, which seems crazy, but this is very possible. So because the brain has learned to expect a certain thing, this is where people catch
