Muse Blog – 4.5.23
There’s a reason you find yourself experiencing more headaches or muscle pain when you’re stressed out… Research shows that chronic stress can actually make us more sensitive to pain! Not only that, but prolonged stress over time can keep fight-or-flight systems chronically activated, leaving us depleted of resources that would otherwise help us feel better. If you experience chronic pain, this can be a difficult cycle to break. Chronic pain creates more stress, and that chronic stress in turn heightens the experience of pain. But if you’re stuck in the toxic cycle of stress and pain, never fear — there are ways to shift your relationship with stress to make your pain less intense and easier to manage.