The end of it? really?

I have been struggling with moderate-to-sever chronic middle back pain since my mid 20s. I was keeping it successfully in check with yoga and exercise. I did MRIs, numerous doctor visits, spend fortune on frequent massages and towards my mid 30s I started to accept the fact that the pain will be with me for the rest of my life and all I can do is to have fun with the activities that keep me pain-free.

Then I had a curious experience of getting significant release of my back pain in my therapy session. The experience was registered by mentioning it to Bryan as something 'crazy' but I didn't give it much further thought. The next revelation came to me during my yoga classes where I started noticing that the most relief I got was during meditation rather than after the poses that are supposed to strengthen the muscles that support my prematurely aging spine. I started thinking that the pain was neurological in nature rather than a skeletal or a muscular problem, without really getting into what 'exactly' that meant. In my mind I was treating the nerves as another kind of involuntary muscle of my CNS and concluded that 'some' form of exercise is still the answer.

I was, however, not prepared to read about the Psychology of Back Pain in one of the science blogs I look at: http://scienceblogs.com/cortex/2009/01/back_pain.php
and it blew my mind with an unexpected bonus of eliminating my chronic back pain to a hardly noticeable discomfort.

I don't know where even start to try to explain the process of healing but it shed some light on how other people experience miracles and start religions and inspire crowds. I am a neuropsychology enthusiast but nothing I have seen in lectures and read online ever could prepare me for this. I was FREE of the pain within a day or two.

and yes I am most likely a psycho whose brain is prone to fixation and repetition when it comes to life as when it comes to the back pain. The pain was like the ghost limb and once I saw it in the mirror, the painful sensations went away. Ok, now excuse me while I go think about this little more to eliminate this pesky lower back pain that promptly settled in!