Look At Pain Differently..

Why are our brains built in such a way that a broken heart can feel as painful as a broken leg?

When someone says, “He broke my heart,” we understand this as a metaphor. No one mistakes this for a medical emergency.

Physical and social pain seems as if they are worlds apart. Every tim...

Each individual has different resources and experiences that play a role in how they are affected by different emotions. just as not all people feel joy the same way, not everyone fee;s pain in the same way.

there is not a hierachry of emotion that says that one person's feelings ar...

Only our brain — an organ that itself cannot feel pain — can feel pain. Headaches are not even our brain hurting.

There is not much difference between physical and emotional pain. Both can be reduced through a variety of means, like pleasant aromas or music. In many ways, we feel the pain w...