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Dr. Howard Schubiner

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267 total appearances

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Dhru Purohit Show
What is Your Body Trying to Tell You? The Top Causes of Chronic Pain and How to Tackle Pain Head On

But I can promise you it won't lie in some change in how we move our body or how our backs are. That I can tell you for sure.

Dhru Purohit Show
What is Your Body Trying to Tell You? The Top Causes of Chronic Pain and How to Tackle Pain Head On

You know, one of the things I'd love to think about is how we know what we know. And everyone knows the Earth is not flat. Everyone knows the Earth is round. And we say, well, how do we know? Well, you go up in spaceships, we can see the Earth is round. It's pretty simple. But people knew the Earth was round before we had spaceships.

Dhru Purohit Show
What is Your Body Trying to Tell You? The Top Causes of Chronic Pain and How to Tackle Pain Head On

You know, one of the things I'd love to think about is how we know what we know. And everyone knows the Earth is not flat. Everyone knows the Earth is round. And we say, well, how do we know? Well, you go up in spaceships, we can see the Earth is round. It's pretty simple. But people knew the Earth was round before we had spaceships.

Dhru Purohit Show
What is Your Body Trying to Tell You? The Top Causes of Chronic Pain and How to Tackle Pain Head On

You know, one of the things I'd love to think about is how we know what we know. And everyone knows the Earth is not flat. Everyone knows the Earth is round. And we say, well, how do we know? Well, you go up in spaceships, we can see the Earth is round. It's pretty simple. But people knew the Earth was round before we had spaceships.

Dhru Purohit Show
What is Your Body Trying to Tell You? The Top Causes of Chronic Pain and How to Tackle Pain Head On

Because if there was a boat, I know I'm making a little digression here, but we have a little time. Is that okay?

Dhru Purohit Show
What is Your Body Trying to Tell You? The Top Causes of Chronic Pain and How to Tackle Pain Head On

Because if there was a boat, I know I'm making a little digression here, but we have a little time. Is that okay?

Dhru Purohit Show
What is Your Body Trying to Tell You? The Top Causes of Chronic Pain and How to Tackle Pain Head On

Because if there was a boat, I know I'm making a little digression here, but we have a little time. Is that okay?

Dhru Purohit Show
What is Your Body Trying to Tell You? The Top Causes of Chronic Pain and How to Tackle Pain Head On

So I love this story. So when a boat was approaching the land from the ocean, you would see the top of the mast before you saw the rest of the boat. Why is that? Because the earth is curved. If the earth were flat, you would see the boat, you would see the whole boat at the same time. You wouldn't see the top first, and then you'd gradually see the rest of the boat.

Dhru Purohit Show
What is Your Body Trying to Tell You? The Top Causes of Chronic Pain and How to Tackle Pain Head On

So I love this story. So when a boat was approaching the land from the ocean, you would see the top of the mast before you saw the rest of the boat. Why is that? Because the earth is curved. If the earth were flat, you would see the boat, you would see the whole boat at the same time. You wouldn't see the top first, and then you'd gradually see the rest of the boat.

Dhru Purohit Show
What is Your Body Trying to Tell You? The Top Causes of Chronic Pain and How to Tackle Pain Head On

So I love this story. So when a boat was approaching the land from the ocean, you would see the top of the mast before you saw the rest of the boat. Why is that? Because the earth is curved. If the earth were flat, you would see the boat, you would see the whole boat at the same time. You wouldn't see the top first, and then you'd gradually see the rest of the boat.

Dhru Purohit Show
What is Your Body Trying to Tell You? The Top Causes of Chronic Pain and How to Tackle Pain Head On

So if people are astute and thoughtful in thinking, they would understand, hey, the earth is round. With pain, we know that not all injuries cause pain. And this is an amazing thing. And we've known this for hundreds of years. There's millions of stories about it. People have had injuries, sometimes severe injuries, nail in their head.

Dhru Purohit Show
What is Your Body Trying to Tell You? The Top Causes of Chronic Pain and How to Tackle Pain Head On

So if people are astute and thoughtful in thinking, they would understand, hey, the earth is round. With pain, we know that not all injuries cause pain. And this is an amazing thing. And we've known this for hundreds of years. There's millions of stories about it. People have had injuries, sometimes severe injuries, nail in their head.

Dhru Purohit Show
What is Your Body Trying to Tell You? The Top Causes of Chronic Pain and How to Tackle Pain Head On

So if people are astute and thoughtful in thinking, they would understand, hey, the earth is round. With pain, we know that not all injuries cause pain. And this is an amazing thing. And we've known this for hundreds of years. There's millions of stories about it. People have had injuries, sometimes severe injuries, nail in their head.

Dhru Purohit Show
What is Your Body Trying to Tell You? The Top Causes of Chronic Pain and How to Tackle Pain Head On

There's some guy, famous story, had shot a nail right into his head. Didn't notice, kind of. He thought the nail went off somewhere else. Didn't have pain. There's all these things. But the point is, if you can have an injury and not have pain, what that means is that when your finger is hurt, when you cut your finger, it's not your finger that causes pain. It's actually the brain.

Dhru Purohit Show
What is Your Body Trying to Tell You? The Top Causes of Chronic Pain and How to Tackle Pain Head On

There's some guy, famous story, had shot a nail right into his head. Didn't notice, kind of. He thought the nail went off somewhere else. Didn't have pain. There's all these things. But the point is, if you can have an injury and not have pain, what that means is that when your finger is hurt, when you cut your finger, it's not your finger that causes pain. It's actually the brain.

Dhru Purohit Show
What is Your Body Trying to Tell You? The Top Causes of Chronic Pain and How to Tackle Pain Head On

There's some guy, famous story, had shot a nail right into his head. Didn't notice, kind of. He thought the nail went off somewhere else. Didn't have pain. There's all these things. But the point is, if you can have an injury and not have pain, what that means is that when your finger is hurt, when you cut your finger, it's not your finger that causes pain. It's actually the brain.

Dhru Purohit Show
What is Your Body Trying to Tell You? The Top Causes of Chronic Pain and How to Tackle Pain Head On

Because what happens is the brain has to make a decision to turn on pain or not turn on pain. And so not all injuries cause pain, number one. Number two, not all pain is due to injuries. And we know this for 100% because we've seen thousands of people, and this is the work that I do, is seeing people have pain, which is real pain, who have no injury at all. And this is extremely common.

Dhru Purohit Show
What is Your Body Trying to Tell You? The Top Causes of Chronic Pain and How to Tackle Pain Head On

Because what happens is the brain has to make a decision to turn on pain or not turn on pain. And so not all injuries cause pain, number one. Number two, not all pain is due to injuries. And we know this for 100% because we've seen thousands of people, and this is the work that I do, is seeing people have pain, which is real pain, who have no injury at all. And this is extremely common.

Dhru Purohit Show
What is Your Body Trying to Tell You? The Top Causes of Chronic Pain and How to Tackle Pain Head On

Because what happens is the brain has to make a decision to turn on pain or not turn on pain. And so not all injuries cause pain, number one. Number two, not all pain is due to injuries. And we know this for 100% because we've seen thousands of people, and this is the work that I do, is seeing people have pain, which is real pain, who have no injury at all. And this is extremely common.

Dhru Purohit Show
What is Your Body Trying to Tell You? The Top Causes of Chronic Pain and How to Tackle Pain Head On

So when you just take those two things together, what you come to is that, number one, all pain is generated in the brain and all pain is real. Not imaginary, not fake. There's no such thing as, well, this pain is real because I have an injury and this pain isn't real because I don't have an injury.