Pain Rehab Podcast

Meditación de cscaneo corporal

October 25, 2021 20:00 - 13 minutes - 9.59 MB

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 notice. To learn more, go to PainRehabSrouce.com

Meditación de cuerpo y respiración

March 28, 2021 16:00 - 10 minutes - 7.31 MB

Edición en español In this guided meditation, you will be bring your attention to your body and breath. As you focus your attention, allow your mind to fully focus on what you are experiencing and gently bring it back as it wanders. Using this exercise each day will help settle and ground you, calming down your body and nervous system. To learn more, go to PainRehabSource.com

The Oversensitive Nervous System

January 29, 2021 02:00 - 9 minutes - 6.83 MB

Learn what it means to have an oversensitive nervous system and how it impacts how your brain responds to the information it receives from the peripheral nervous system. When your central nervous system is overly reactive, information it receives can be incorrectly viewed as a threat which results in the brain producing pain. To learn more, go to PainRehabSource.com

Calming Breath and Physical Exercise

December 27, 2020 23:00 - 12 minutes - 8.9 MB

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: PainRehabSource.com

Breathing Practice Habits

December 21, 2020 00:00 - 9 minutes - 6.32 MB

In this podcast, I will be giving you some simple guidelines on the regular practice of breathing exercises. In the previous podcast, I covered the calming breath exercise. The calming breath can be excellent pain management tool, but only if it practiced on a consistent basis. Learn the the foundation for good habit formation in this episode. To learn more, go to: PainRehabSource.com

Calming Breath

December 05, 2020 19:00 - 8 minutes - 5.78 MB

In this guided meditation designed to help you reduce tension in your body and calm your nervous system. You will learn the secret to slow quiet breathing that helps increase the levels of oxygen in your bloodstream and calm your mind, reducing tension throughout your body. To learn more, go to PainRehabSource.com

Wheel of Awareness

August 26, 2020 21:00 - 13 minutes - 9.15 MB

This is a guided meditation designed to help increase your awareness of what is happening inside of you and around you and improve your ability to maintain emotional balance, even when life is difficult. By increasing our awareness of what we are thinking, feeling, and doing, we can move toward balance which creates harmony in our lives. To learn more, go to: PainRehabSource.com

Expansion

August 13, 2020 16:00 - 9 minutes - 6.32 MB

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 be focusing on creating a space for pain and discomfort. To...

Befriending

August 01, 2020 19:00 - 8 minutes - 6.06 MB

This is a guided meditation exercise designed to help you develop a sense of kindness and compassion toward yourself and others. Even though we often appear confident and put together to the outside world, we often feel anxious, sad, insecure, and distressed on the inside. Use this exercise to extend kindness and compassion to yourself and to others. To learn more, go to PainRehabSource.com

Reducing Pain

January 26, 2020 12:00 - 12 minutes - 8.63 MB

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 learn more, go to: PainRehabSource.com

Visualizing Pain

January 26, 2020 12:00 - 12 minutes - 8.63 MB

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 learn more, go to: PainRehabSource.com

Progressive Muscle Relaxation: Short Version

December 04, 2019 01:00 - 10 minutes - 6.97 MB

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 a car, train, or plane and cannot get up to move around. This...

Leaves on a Stream

December 04, 2019 01:00 - 9 minutes - 6.77 MB

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 thoughts rather than be controlled by them. This exercise will ...

The Body Scan

December 04, 2019 01:00 - 13 minutes - 9.12 MB

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 more, go to PainRehabSrouce.com

Five Sense Awareness Exercise

December 04, 2019 01:00 - 7 minutes - 4.97 MB

This will be 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 are feeling upset, have difficulty staying focused, and cannot stop worrying, this exercise is a simple method to get centered and grounded again. To learn more, go to PainRehabSource.com

Progressive Muscle Relaxation

December 04, 2019 01:00 - 11 minutes - 8.11 MB

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, in a meeting, and when standing in line for a long period of ...

Noticing the Body and the Breath

December 04, 2019 00:00 - 9 minutes - 6.74 MB

In this guided meditation, you will be bring your attention to your body and breath. As you focus your attention, allow your mind to fully focus on what you are experiencing and gently bring it back as it wanders. Using this exercise each day will help settle and ground you, calming down your body and nervous system. To learn more, go to PainRehabSource.com

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