Mind-body work focuses on the part of the brain that is responsible for emotions, responsible for sorting information, regulating hormones, and is the brain's alert system. Stress, worry, and trauma from a chronic illness can alter the brain's function and can get stuck in a state of constant stress, which in turn causes emotions such as fear and anxiety as well as unwanted symptoms such as pain, fatigue, dizziness, and much more.

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The brain and the nervous system are made up of many neurons. These neurons are responsible for sending messages from the brain to the body. These messages are called pathways. During times of trauma or stress, the neurons are firing unsafe messages to the brain, which causes anxiety, fatigue, dizziness, pain, etc. 

In order to heal these unwanted symptoms, you need to retrain your neural pathways. This is something you can do with support and a new daily practice.

 

You can begin to use healthy neurons within your brain to override the damaged pathways that cause the symptoms and create new settings to feel normal again. You also begin to calm the constant alert system that your nervous system has become accustomed to. By shutting down the alert system (fight or flight) your brain will no longer feel it's being threatened.