Pain Rehab Podcast

This is a guided awareness exercise designed to help you focus your attention and keep you connected to the present moment. When we experience stress and find that we have difficulty staying focused and are caught up with or emotions and upsetting thoughts, this exercise is a simple method to get centered and grounded again. Our brains are designed to think, plan, and problem solve, but we can learn to stand back and look at our th...

Progress Muscle Relaxation is designed to help you reduce tension throughout your body. This podcast is present the relaxation exercise without the additional explanation and instructions at the beginning. As you are learning to do this exercise, practice at least once per day for two weeks so that you can train your nervous system and muscles to relax quickly and efficiently. This is a good exercise to use when you are sitting in ...

In this guided meditation, you will bring your attention to your body. As you focus your attention, allow your mind to fully focus on what you are experiencing and gently bring it back as it wanders. Develop the skill of aiming the focus of your attention on one area of the body, avoiding the pull evaluate or judge what you notice, and letting go of any effort to change, relax, and relieve any discomfort that you notice. To learn m...

Progress Muscle Relaxation is designed to help you reduce tension throughout your body. As you are learning to do this exercise, practice at least once per day for two weeks so that you can train your nervous system and muscles to relax quickly and efficiently. This is a good exercise to use when you are sitting in a car, train, or plane and cannot get up to move around. This is also helpful to use if you are sitting at your desk, ...

This is a guided awareness exercise designed to help you manage difficult pain sensations. When we experience pain, it is natural for our mind to wrestle with our discomfort and try and eliminate it. We wish for our pain to go away and fear it becoming worse. We try to distract ourselves from our pain or focus on relaxing the area of our body that hurts. If that does not work, we simply give in to the anger and frustration. To lear...

This will be a guided meditation exercise designed to help you get grounded and create space in your life for things that are difficult. Difficulty might show up in the form of memories, thoughts, emotions, or physical sensations. It is easy for us to treat the activity of our mind as important, valid, and true. When this happens, we get carried away with our mental activity and get tossed around. For this exercise, we are going to...

In this podcast, I will be giving you some simple guidelines on using the calming breath while you are doing other moderate exercises like walking, cycling, using an elliptical machine, or jogging. The combination of the calming breath with physical exercise can increase your stamina, calm your nervous system, and improve your energy levels due to the increased efficiency of how your body uses oxygen.  To learn more, go to: PainReh...

Edición en español In this guided meditation, you will bring your attention to your body. As you focus your attention, allow your mind to fully focus on what you are experiencing and gently bring it back as it wanders. Develop the skill of aiming the focus of your attention on one area of the body, avoiding the pull evaluate or judge what you notice, and letting go of any effort to change, relax, and relieve any discomfort that you...