Are Negative Thoughts Causing Your Headache?

by Nikki Walsh
The Alternative Daily

Have you ever felt like your head is going to crack from too much stress? Most people have. A tension headache is the most common type of headache — yet the causes are not well understood, according to the Mayo Clinic. Your mind not only helps relieve the immediate grip of a tension headache, it also gets to the root of the problem and releases the underlying stressor. The calm of your mind can ease the tension in your brain. Balancing the brain network through the feeling in your mind cuts to the core of the tension in your head.

Ron W. Rathbun, author and meditation teacher, says, “Most of the tension that occurs in your brain comes from negative thoughts that ruminate in your head. These ‘negative thoughts’ are compartments that get trapped in our mind and lead to tension headaches in our brain. Balancing the mind leads to a balancing of the brain network. The mind calms the tension in the brain and leads to headache relief.”

How compartments are created

Negative thoughts about yourself or others can get trapped as compartments in our mind. Compartments are what we call “our baggage” or “our buttons,” bad experiences we’ve taken in and they continue to bother us. They show up as negative thoughts in our mind (and brain), and we can loop through them by thinking the same negative thought again and again. Has this ever happened to you?
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