Pain
Your brain does not distinguish between types of pain in the same way your cognition interprets it.
For your brain, social and physical pain follow the same processing pathway.
This is a good reminder that sticks and stones may break your bones but words are equally damaging.
When you experience any form of pain, a unique physiological event occurs.
Your pupils narrow.
Physiologically, this is designed to aid in honing your visual focus and increase general defence mechanisms.
When you experience pain, of any kind, your perspective literally narrows.
Socially-derived pain may present as frustration or annoyance, but the physiological response is the same.
If you want to pivot perspectives, first you need to create the brain capacity to broaden them.
Cooler days, warmer lattes,
- Morning Cup