Externalizing Conversations

http://women.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/women/body_and_soul/article5252125.ece

I just came across this article called "Putting Pain into Perspective." Researchers have found that people who suffer from chronic, recurring pain experienced more pain when looking at the painful body part through binoculars or a magnifying glass. When they saw the part bigger, the brain actually thought the swelling was greater and so there was also more pain. On the other hand, when people saw the same body part through the wrong side of the binoculars, far away and detached, their brains got a sort of new perspective, where the problem seemed further away and not so big.

When I read this, I thought about externalizing conversations because it does two things:
1. Make the problem external
and also 2. move the problem a certain distance away from the self.

You all already know it works, but I guess here's some more proof that even physical pain is linked in some ways to perspective and if you think a problem is a bit further away, it becomes a little smaller and more manageable.