Talking to the brain

We talk to the brain continuously, inevitably. We project an assessment of what we feel and think, from our consciousness to ourselves.

- Talk to your brain. Project the confident conviction that nothing happens where it projects pain, danger ...

Many patients find this proposal absurd, ridiculous. They think that we defend the idea of a little person living inside of us.

- I already told the brain not to hurt but...

Intracellular and intercellular communication is a necessary condition for life. Without information there is no life. There is dialogue between intracellular components, between the cytoplasm and nucleus, between the cell and its immediate surroundings. Each neuron talks to itself. It takes multiple impacts of reality on the receptors of the membrane and generates a signal (action potential) that integrates all the mini-signals of all the contact points. Through the action potential, it releases chemical messengers (neurotransmitters) that transmit information from the neuron to others but also to itself. Depending on what the neuron tells itself through its own neurotransmitters, its excitability state changes. The neuron is an individual that talks to itself as well as with neighbors and the entire organism.

As the signals are processed in different centers and decisions are generated and expressed in the form of action potentials and neurotransmitters, the same dialog is produced between centers, with the neighbors and the organism.

When the cerebral process projects its results to the mysterious field of consciousness, the same re-entry of information is produced, the self-dialogue of the brain through the rebound from consciousness. The brain does not recognize himself as a conscious part until it receives the information, the realization that its processings have generated certain conscious contents. In visual perception, every cerebral center processes a different aspect of the objects: shape, location in space, color, movement ... Until the overall results come out to consciousness. The brain does not know what it is or where the object is. The brain of the shapes only knows that there is an object with edges of contrast in a certain direction, the direction of movement, that it’s something that moves quickly. The set of these elementary processes is produced when the report: “car” comes out to consciousness, and this result re-enters the network.

Consciousness (the conscious self) is the most complex level of processing. As there is a drift from the brain to the individual, this can be set to an attention position and open up the senses to the entry of information that makes it possible to modify brain assessments.

The object of pedagogy of pain (know pain, no pain) is precisely to introduce informative material in the brain-individual dialogue that modifies the decisions made from this dialogue.

Establishing a dialogue between the individual and the brain does not depend on the individual. This always exists. It’s about (given its existence) influencing its results, reinterpreting, re-evaluating, doing other attributions, removing and giving relevance.

Talking to the brain is not about verbalizing some kind of prayer, repeating magical sentences, commanding or begging. The individual must project its convictions and defend its program, not be intimidated by the pressure of the brain’s proposals to assess threat.

- Tell your brain, when it projects pain ...

Pain is a hypothesis in many cases, a probabilistic brain speculation. The individual should know for sure and project that conviction.

That's it.