Mind-Body Connections
Pain is felt in the brain. When we are stressed, nerves that carry the signal of pain become more easily facilitated; the brain picks up pain signals more easily and you experience more pain. By becoming more aware of how we guard against pain, how our bodies react to stress, and how we shut down our breathing and movement, we can learn to decrease or eliminate pain.
Mindfulness, guided imagery, and relaxation techniques can be powerful tools to support the process of living with and decreasing chronic pain. Previous childhood trauma, stress, and other traumas, such as being involved in a motor vehicle accident, can all affect our nervous systems and affect our relationship with pain.
People can experience trauma as a result of a motor vehicle accident, as well from many other sources including early childhood. When this occurs, the incident continues to haunt us long after the stressful event has occurred, and can interfere with activities of daily living and relationships. Mindfulness and learning relaxation techniques are supportive ways is helping the body relax its grip on the underlying tensin. Sensiormotor Psychotherapy and Embodied Imagination are also tools that work with the body's wisdom to release trauma that thinking cannot make the pain of the trauma go away; for example someone experiencing post traumatic stress disorder may think "I KNOW I am not having an accident now, but I am anxious, sweating and really afraid--I can't get my body to let go of this fear". There is great wisdom held in our bodies and becoming in touch with its messages can have profound healing effect. Early relationship and attachment play a large role in not only physical pain, but obviously emotional pain and suffering as well.
Mindfulness
Medical research shows that the nervous system of a person with persistent pain becomes sensitive and easy to activate. This increase in nerve sensitivity increases pain. By relaxing or meditating you reduce this sensitivity. You create healthy nerve activation in your brain, spinal cord and body that helps decrease pain.
Sensorimotor Psychotherapy: Developed by Dr. Pat Ogden, sensorimotor psychotherapy is a comprehensive somatic psychotherapy method for healing the disconnect between body and mind that occurs as a result of trauma or attachment failure. Sensorimotor Psychotherapy draws from somatic therapies, neuroscience, attachment theory, and cognitive approaches, as well as from Hakomi therapy. Since the first course in Sensorimotor Psychotherapy was offered in the early 1980s, it has gained international acclaim. The first book on Sensorimotor Psychotherapy, Trauma and the Body: A Sensorimotor Approach to Psychotherapy, published in the Norton Series on Interpersonal Neurobiology in 2006 gained international acclaim.
Embodied Imagination: Embodied imagination is a therapeutic way of working with dreams, memories and symptoms that can be helpful in alleviating pain, trauma, anxiety and depression.
Mindfulness, guided imagery, and relaxation techniques can be powerful tools to support the process of living with and decreasing chronic pain. Previous childhood trauma, stress, and other traumas, such as being involved in a motor vehicle accident, can all affect our nervous systems and affect our relationship with pain.
People can experience trauma as a result of a motor vehicle accident, as well from many other sources including early childhood. When this occurs, the incident continues to haunt us long after the stressful event has occurred, and can interfere with activities of daily living and relationships. Mindfulness and learning relaxation techniques are supportive ways is helping the body relax its grip on the underlying tensin. Sensiormotor Psychotherapy and Embodied Imagination are also tools that work with the body's wisdom to release trauma that thinking cannot make the pain of the trauma go away; for example someone experiencing post traumatic stress disorder may think "I KNOW I am not having an accident now, but I am anxious, sweating and really afraid--I can't get my body to let go of this fear". There is great wisdom held in our bodies and becoming in touch with its messages can have profound healing effect. Early relationship and attachment play a large role in not only physical pain, but obviously emotional pain and suffering as well.
Mindfulness
Medical research shows that the nervous system of a person with persistent pain becomes sensitive and easy to activate. This increase in nerve sensitivity increases pain. By relaxing or meditating you reduce this sensitivity. You create healthy nerve activation in your brain, spinal cord and body that helps decrease pain.
Sensorimotor Psychotherapy: Developed by Dr. Pat Ogden, sensorimotor psychotherapy is a comprehensive somatic psychotherapy method for healing the disconnect between body and mind that occurs as a result of trauma or attachment failure. Sensorimotor Psychotherapy draws from somatic therapies, neuroscience, attachment theory, and cognitive approaches, as well as from Hakomi therapy. Since the first course in Sensorimotor Psychotherapy was offered in the early 1980s, it has gained international acclaim. The first book on Sensorimotor Psychotherapy, Trauma and the Body: A Sensorimotor Approach to Psychotherapy, published in the Norton Series on Interpersonal Neurobiology in 2006 gained international acclaim.
Embodied Imagination: Embodied imagination is a therapeutic way of working with dreams, memories and symptoms that can be helpful in alleviating pain, trauma, anxiety and depression.
