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I resolved my chronic (3.5y) neck pain two months ago. Now it’s obvious to me that I was creating the tension all along. Here’s my model of what was causing my tension: 1. There would be a feeling in my neck.Like all feelings, the sensation in my neck represented some piece of information meant to be communicated to the rest of my nervous system. Being aware of the feeling seemed to be equivalent to being aware of that piece of information. And I don’t know why, but it happened to manifest spatially within my neck.2. Some part of me wanted to not feel that feeling.Some part of my (for some purpose) had a prediction that being aware of this feeling/information would be bad.3. It created muscle tension around the feeling.In order to avoid the feeling, that part of me created muscle tension around the location of the feeling in my neck.4. So the feeling grew.Like all feelings, this one was (and often still is) there in order to be noticed and integrated. Unsurprisingly, the feeling respon...
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