Why your brain creates pain to protect you

I spent $12,000 on one of the best chiropractors in California. 

I did a 14-day water fast at one of the most famous clinics in the country. 

But my back pain kept coming back. 

Until I learned this one thing about my brain...

Dr. John Sarno discovered this truth after decades of treating chronic pain patients. And Sarno identified something remarkable:

Pain syndromes don't exist to express hidden emotions. Pain syndromes exist to prevent those emotions from becoming conscious.

I’ll simplify this for you…

Your brain creates pain to protect you.

…It's a primitive protection mechanism.

Dr. Schubiner calls this "primary pain." It's pain generated by the brain's danger alarm system, not by structural damage.

The brain's protective process works like this:

Your unconscious mind holds painful emotions (anger, fear, grief, trauma) that feel too threatening to acknowledge. Rather than allowing you to feel the full emotional impact, your brain creates physical symptoms as a diversion.

I witnessed this protective mechanism in my own journey with chronic pain. 

For 7 years, my brain had learned to create symptoms to keep my nervous system in survival mode, protecting me from emotions I wasn't ready to process.

But here's what the research shows us...

Dr. Sarno documented case after case of complete healing once patients understood this mechanism. Like Helen, who was bedridden with debilitating pain until she allowed herself to feel 40 years of repressed anger. 

The moment she stopped fighting those emotions, her pain left her body.

Pain serves as a defense against emotional truth.

As long as your attention stays focused on physical symptoms, you don't have to face what's happening emotionally. But this same protective mechanism that helps you avoid painful feelings also prevents true healing.

This is why traditional medicine often fails with chronic conditions. 

Doctors look for structural problems, but the real issue lies in how your brain has learned to create symptoms as emotional protection.

The science of neuroplasticity proves that if your brain learned to create these protective symptoms, it can also learn to turn them off.

In Brain-Based Healing, I teach the exact clinical protocols I used to retrain my brain and help my nervous system finally recognize safety. These aren't meditation or positive thinking techniques…

…They're evidence-based neuroplasticity applications used in clinical settings.

Because once you understand that your symptoms are protection rather than damage, you can begin addressing the root cause.

Your pain has served a purpose, but it doesn't have to be permanent.

If you're ready to stop fighting your symptoms and start understanding what they're truly protecting you from...

»Click here to join the waitlist for Brain-Based Healing

The research is clear: 

Your brain created these patterns, and your brain can unlearn them.

To your success & healing,

Kimia