Trauma and fear can trigger negative emotions that harm a person’s mental health and often show up physically as psychosomatic pain. Both positive and negative feelings can create harmful neural patterns, called pathological neural networks (PNNs), which become deeply embedded in the subconscious and keep psychosomatic pain ongoing. Treatments like extinction learning, cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), regression hypnotherapy, and traditional hypnosis are commonly used to ease psychosomatic pain. These methods mainly help people reach a calm state, but calmness doesn’t always mean the pain or negative feelings are gone—they can still resurface. To fully overcome psychosomatic pain and emotional distress, it’s necessary to go beyond just feeling calm and instead reach a state of complete emotional emptiness. Mindchat therapy, a type of de-hypnosis, works by altering brain patterns and breaking down the harmful neural networks that cause pain and negative emotions. This therapy alone may successfully remove both psychosomatic pain and negative emotions by going deeper than what traditional therapies achieve. This article explores how negative emotions relate to psychosomatic pain through the functioning of PNNs from a neuropsychological perspective.
