Befriending

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

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

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

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 

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 

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

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 

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 learn more, go to: PainRehabSource.com 

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

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