Modulating the Map of Pain with Imagery

Many of us use images to help shift the quality of pain we feel, or the sense of movement possibility, or our symbolic/emotional relationship to the body.
But what's happening when we do this? And how do we shift our strategy with this doesn't work? Here's a clip from last year's 'Mapmaking for Somatic Practitioners' -- a workshop for anyone who uses body imagery in their embodied practice.
More details on the course: bit.ly/3ncFonZ
Paper mentioned in this video:
"Behavioral and Neural Signatures of Visual Imagery Vividness Extremes: Aphantasia versus Hyperphantasia" by Milton et al 2021 www.ncbi.nlm.n...