Change Your Brain, Change Your Pain Quotes

“Physical pain is a sentinel, standing guard over your body, ensuring that harm doesn’t go unnoticed. It serves multiple functions, none of which are random. Pain isn’t just an inconvenience; it’s a biological imperative.”
― Daniel G. Amen, Change Your Brain, Change Your Pain: Breaking the Doom Loop to Heal Chronic Physical and Emotional Pain

“Anything that happens repeatedly in the brain doesn’t just fade away; it creates new pathways, making those patterns more likely to repeat themselves. This applies whether the experience is positive or negative.”
― Daniel G. Amen, Change Your Brain, Change Your Pain: Breaking the Doom Loop to Heal Chronic Physical and Emotional Pain

“Physical and emotional pain don’t travel on separate pathways in the brain; they are processed by overlapping ones, like two lanes merging onto the same highway. When one lane becomes congested or there’s an accident, the other lane is also affected, creating a traffic jam of suffering in the brain’s circuits. This close connection means that when physical pain flares up, emotional pain often follows, and vice versa.”
― Daniel G. Amen, Change Your Brain, Change Your Pain: Breaking the Doom Loop to Heal Chronic Physical and Emotional Pain