Neuroplasticity refers to the brain’s ability to structurally and functionally change and adapt over time by reorganising neural pathways and connections. This plasticity is believed to play a key role in learning new skills, developing habits, and recovering from injuries.
Research shows that the brain can form new circuits and alter existing ones in response to experiences, behaviours, emotions, and thoughts. Neural networks rewire based on repetitive patterns of activity. This is relevant for chronic pain, as maladaptive plastic changes can cause hypersensitised pain perception even after the initial injury heals.
The brain’s neuroplastic capacity means neural patterns sustaining chronic pain can be reshaped with targeted interventions. Approaches like meditation, cognitive behavioural therapy, neurofeedback training, and graded motor imagery leverage plasticity mechanisms to help retrain the brain’s processing of pain signals. With conscious practise, the neural networks underpinning the experience of pain can be restructured over time.
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Dr. Terry McIvor is the founder of the International Guild of Hypnotherapy,NLP and 3 Principles Practitioners and Trainers. (IGH3P)
IGH3P is a professional development body which develops the skills of coaches, Hypnotherapist and NLPers.
He is an educationalist of over 20 years experience and has been accredited as a STEM and Science expert at level 6 and 7 by the Office of Qualifications and Examinations Regulation (OFQUAL) in the U.K.
Dr. Terry is also an NLP trainer, Master Hypnotist, a qualified Hypnotherapist and 3 Principles Coach.
He is trainer for most of the leading hypnosis professional bodies in the U.S including IACT, ICBCH,IMDHA, and the Elman Institute,
Dr. Terry has set up his own accredited STEM school in the U.K. called AISR, it is through his academy he conducts his teaching and research.
Dr. Terry has entered into the realm of Metaphysical Philosophy. and is currently adapting metaphysical ideas of consciousness to train metaphysical( Quantum) coaches of the future.
Learn more at www.IGH3P.com. You can email him at registrar@igh3p.com
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