Stress Back Pain

Stress Related Back Pain

Stress back pain is a very common form of psychological back pain. Most people will feel increased back muscle tension, tightness and pain when they are under a lot of emotional stress. Usually, this back pain ends when the stress is resolved. However, sometimes the back pain stays and becomes a chronic condition. This is almost always the result of repression of emotional stress. The stress is not truly resolved; it is merely buried deeply inside our subconscious minds. This is the start of stress induced back pain.

What Causes Stress Back Pain?

The type of stress that causes back pain is not the common day to day stress. It is not the stress of being on time, the stress of missing a bus or train or the stress of having to go to work. It is repressed emotional stress. This type of stress can be obvious or extremely subtle. Obvious examples of repressed emotional stress are physical or sexual abuse, loss of a loved one, a rift in family relations or a traumatic experience. Less obvious, but equally powerful repressed emotional stress might include a bad relationship, hidden anger at children or parents, dissatisfaction with a career path (or life in general) or even a poor self image.

Repressed emotional stress is an obvious threat, since the subconscious mind is trying so hard to hide it from you (from your consciousness, that is�). The subconscious has become overly fearful of the effects these repressed emotions might have, if they are discovered by your conscious mind. Therefore, the subconscious mind has created a �smokescreen� of back pain to keep your conscious mind focused on something other than these repressed issues.

Solving Stress Back Pain Problems

The cure for stress back pain is to recognize and acknowledge the stress. These emotional issues are well hidden (repressed) by the subconscious mind. If repression is the cause of the pain, then discovery is the cure. The patient must investigate all possible causes for the pain, then work to resolve, or at least acknowledge these sensitive issues, before the pain will end.

This process seems contrived and complicated to a novice in the field of mind/body medicine.

However, the mind IS the body. The body IS the mind.

They are inseparable.

The actions of one will always affect the other. Of course, the mind is the Commanding General, while the body is simply the soldier. If the mind wants to use the body to protect itself, then that�s what it will do.

The process is not logical and is certainly an evolutionary maladaptation. However, many of the emotions in the subconscious are not logical, rational or even sane. The subconscious is a place where our most primal and narcissistic thoughts constantly battle with our sense of conscience and �Godliness�.

Recommendation on Stress Back Pain

Do not discount the power stress can have over your body and mind. It can sometimes mean the difference between health and disease, even life and death...

My recommendation for you who have TREATMENT-RESISTANT BACK PAIN is to investigate knowledge therapy as a possible true emotional cure for your physical pain. It worked for me, it can work for you too.

Stress Back Pain to Lower Back Pain Home 7/14/06 Revised 7/17/08