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Originally Posted by sp12342
About a year later, on almost a whim, for totally other reasons, I went to a 10-day meditation course, because I was interested in Eastern philosophy. It was free, non-religious in any way, and almost scientific in its approach. I had an extreme powerful experience on the 6th day. ALL my pain completely stopped - total physical ease, for a year. Both my body and mind were affected drastically, but the most noticeable was my body. No more pain syndrome symptoms in any way. This may sound weird that a simple meditation (watching your breath) could change so much, but I realised the deep connection between mind and body. Anyway, slowly the pain came back when life was getting more difficult. I'm not saying it's "all in your head", but due to this experience I realize that what we think is physical (tangible) may have other connected relationships with the mind. There are deeply related, if not the same. I'm not 'cured', and the pain comes and goes in its intensity. But meditation helps. And in my case, drastically.
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How wonderful that relief must have been. You say it came back when life became more difficult, so I'm wondering if the pain is caused by stress, in particular tight, tense and sore muscles.
Stress is stored in the muscles as muscle tension, if you can't let it go. I suspect that meditation has a calming effect and the tension dissipates.
Coincidentally, my new pain doc thinks that my head, neck and shoulder pains are probably caused by my very tight and painful neck muscles.
He did a physical exam of my neck and found just the muscles that cause pain-boy, did he find them!
Some of these muscles run from the neck to the shoulder, and i have a lot of that sort of pain.
I tend to carry my stress in my body with tense muscles-always have done. Physios would send me away saying that I was too tense to work on.
So I am now going to do a program of specialised clinical exercises, which I'll be able to continue at home.
It struck me that your pain may well be either caused or aggravated by muscle tension and stress.
Have you tried muscle relaxants at night?