The unconscious brain factors in all of these variables and makes a determination as to whether or not pain should be produced. (Bedell et al., 2004 Moseley & Butler 2017). Inputs are relayed through, and influenced by, unconscious reflections on past experiences, concerns, fears, discussions with friends and family, discussions with healthcare practitioners etc. Science has shown that each individual has different brain activity patterns as inputs are analyzed (Morton et al., 2016). To add more complexity to the process, the decision as to whether or not an area of the body is in danger is not determined by one sole region of the brain but rather by many.

If it feels that you need to pay attention to an area and possibly react, it may let you know via the production of pain. Your unconscious brain is then scanning these inputs and making decisions as to whether or not to alert you to any areas. If a threat is perceived, the output of pain is then produced so that our conscious being can react to it.Īs you sit reading this blog, your skin and other tissues are sending information to your brain from throughout your body. Within the central nervous system, our brain reflects on these inputs and calls on many areas when deciding whether or not the input poses a credible threat to our safety. They are constantly sending information to our central nervous system for analysis. These receptors include pressure, temperature, vibrations, etc.

We do not have pain receptors in our body but rather “harm” receptors (i.e., nociceptors) (Moseley & Butler, 2017).

Mounting evidence shows that pain is an output of the central nervous system (CNS) as opposed to an input.

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