One of our leading experts on the brain and #1 New York Times bestselling author explores how
chronic physical and emotional pain are both rooted in your brain’s wiring leaving you stuck
in the doom loop and how you can break free to heal from the "doom loop" and reclaim a vibrant
pain-free life. In the United States alone one in five adults experiences chronic pain. For
too long when a doctor couldn’t find the source of frequent pain the patient was dismissively
told “it’s all in your head.” Today we know that our somatic responses to trauma anxiety and
depression create real suffering and that physical pain can lead to trauma anxiety and
depression. Dr. Daniel Amen calls this “the doom loop”—the dance between physical and emotional
pain. These doom loops interfere with our ability to live our lives. But we can shift the doom
loop into a healing loop and in this vital book he shows us how. Dr. Amen has been
researching a new brain-based approach to pain. In Change Your Brain Change Your Pain he draws
on those studies to reveal: Pain producing versus pain soothing thought patterns Muscle
tension and trauma vs calmness and clarity The use of medical and nutraceuticals to help calm
the pathways The effects of diet exercise meditation breath to help pain Our current
approach to understanding and treating physical and emotional pain is misguided. Change Your
Brain Change Your Pain offers a healthier way one that involves less medication less surgery
and better outcomes. Just like the human heart the human brain is an organ and that to be
free of emotional or physical pain it is critical to get the brain as healthy as it can be—not
just physically but emotionally psychologically and spiritually as well.
