@ali1974
Hi Alice, I sent you a PM (private message) on a different topic. To read my PM just click on the little envelope symbol in the above right area of this page. Thanks, Hank

@jesfactsmon @user_che214927 Hi guys, from what I have gleaned from watching many Norman Doidge videos is that the greater we concentrate on pain, the better the brain gets at perceiving it. A very sad fact about the brain. The brain gets entrenched in doing it quite well. What Doidge does not say, at least in his videos, is what to do when in severe pain. He only gives one example of a doctor he knows who concentrated repeatedly on 3 MRI images, the last one being the normal one that he wanted to achieve. He concentrated endlessly, and for months. If my life depended on it, I doubt I could do that. Maybe when you take the Central Sensitization 3 week Pain Class at Mayo, you learn Neuro plastic activities. Dr. Jonathan Kuttner, from New Zealand, is developing an on line pain class, and will let me know when it is ready. For now, I do what I can, not to focus on pain, with intensive things that are fully engaging. I think that may be key. To totally engage the brain in something else. So for now, I am learning Spanish, taking IQ tests on line, reading great authors. I have to say, though, I am exhausted. Nothing is natural anymore, just for the joy of it. But I am trying, still. Gotta try to reroute this brain of mine. OY. LoriRenee1