The Complexity of Chronic Pain Chronic pain can be perplexing. It often seems to arise from a specific injury or condition. However, the truth is more nuanced. Pain may not originate where we feel it. Instead, it can be a manifestation of deeper emotional or energetic imbalances. One of my patients came in with persistent neck pain radiating through her shoulder and along the inside edge of her scapula. Structurally, everything lined up. But the tenderness around BL 42—the ou