Overview
A learning frame for persistent pain
For much of the twentieth century, persistent pain was treated as a faithful signal of tissue damage: a smoke alarm wired directly to a fire. The last two decades of neuroscience have made that picture more nuanced and more hopeful. Pain is shaped by what the body senses, what the brain predicts it will sense, what the experience means, and how safe the person feels.
This does not make pain imaginary. It explains why pain can be so real even when scans or tissues do not tell the whole story. The Feldenkrais Method has worked at this intersection of sensation, attention, and meaning since the 1950s, using movement as the doorway through which the nervous system learns about itself.
