We used to think that pain was just about the tissues; we focused on operations, we focused on aligning things. But we now know that a huge contribution to our pain experiences is the stories we tell ourselves, and the stories we’re given by other people.
The modern scientific understanding of pain illustrates that pain always involves stories. There’s always a back story to our painful experiences.
When we get stuck in really gnarly, horrible, difficult, painful events it’s not separate from all the things that are going on in our lives.
We now know that looking at the difficult events in our lives – like trauma and stress – have a real impact on our experience of pain. They can impact every cell in our body, change how every system in our body works, make us feel tired and overwhelmed, reduce our sleep, and leave us walking around contracted and holding our body in really stuck patterns.
In my new online course, Transform Your Pain With Mindful Somatic Movement, we’re going to explore the evidence-based truth that how we move, how we breathe, and how we feel is never separate from all the things that are going on in your life, including pain.
We’ll cultivate the art of developing a pain-free mindset by honouring all the things we find hard. By finding freedom in our stories, and by learning safety, we’ll discover that our pain experience is so much more complex than us being a ‘broken machine’.
We’re going to look at finding safety and exploring making connections to things you enjoy, people that you value, and communities that really appreciate you for who you are.
This can seem like an unusual way of thinking about pain, but we’re going to learn that developing a pain-free mindset, and looking at all the things that limit you and hold you and affect you can be a radical tool to help you – or those that you work with – come out of pain.
Transform your pain with mindful, somatic movement
A seven week online, video course to help you (or your clients) rewire your mind-body response to your persistent pain, using a diverse toolkit of mindfulness techniques, gentle movement exercises, and stress-reduction strategies.
When: July 18th – August 29th
How to join: You can find out more about the course here >>
There’s a special bonus available until the end of the day today, Friday, July 12th – a series of two guided audio meditations with me, called “Navigate & Understand Your Pain”.
