Dr. Rachel Zoffness

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Hidden Brain · How to Combat Pain · 20 Jul 2026 podcast

I know that if I can't sleep and I'm getting anxious and restless, I need to get out of bed and go somewhere else and not lay in bed feeling restless and anxious.

So for every ingredient in the high pain recipe, there is a matching corresponding ingredient that we have the power and agency to change to create balance.

what I call a low pain recipe.

And everyone has one and they're unique to us.

So that's something that everyone has the power to do is to look at the ingredients in their high pain recipe and find some strategies that help us achieve a low pain recipe.

Yeah, so that's quite normal and expected when we have pain.

And I call this voice pain voice.

And the reason I name it pain voice is because I think it's so important for us to recognize that it's a voice of negative predictions, worries, and fears, and worst case scenarios that commonly accompanies pain,

But it isn't us.

That's just pain voice.

And its job is to protect you.

And to protect you, sometimes it gives us these negative predictions.

But here's the thing about thoughts.

Thoughts don't just live in the space between our ears.

Thoughts are physiological neurobiological events that trigger a cascade of events in the human body that affects all of our systems, our neurotransmitters, our hormones, our immune system, circulation, digestion, our musculoskeletal system, like all the way down the line.

So every thought we think has a profound impact.

on the human body, which of course affects the pain we feel.

And neuroscience has shown us that negative thoughts actually amplify pain because of this neurobiological cascade I just mentioned.

And neuroscience also tells us that the opposite is also true.

In fact,

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