Your brain predicts pain before you feel it, based on stories from past experiences. When you sense tension or dread, that's your brain forecasting "I will not like this" rather than responding to what's actually happening now. Uncovering these hidden narratives can change how pain feels.
As you know, I'm just fascinated by the brain and neuroscience and how sex— and so what happens when we have some sort of an emotion or a feeling, and they are two different things, but once we have that kind of sensation of butterflies in my stomach, or I'm, you know, tense in my shoulders, or whatever it might be, if you can unearth the stories that are oftentimes unconscious based on past experiences that are now being interacted with your current experience and just tease those apart and see what is it that— what are the predictions I'm making that I'm— why I'm not going to like this? What is the story that's happening?
Susan’s ICF Educator Award | The Heart Behind the Impact Katy Montgomery, PCC
