by Steve Haines | Dec 23, 2024 | Pain
Anything can work some of the time. Nothing works all of the time. This phrase works really well to illustrate the complexity of working with pain. Pain is dependent on multiple, diverse, interacting variables. Pain is a perception due to the interplay of biological,... 
by Steve Haines | Nov 19, 2024 | Pain
What would it be like if your arm had a mind of its own? Even stranger, if you had eight arms so ‘suffused with nervousness’ that they wander, explore and feel with their own goals, acting as ‘agents of their own’. This is the model offered for being an octopus in... 
by Steve Haines | Aug 14, 2024 | Pain
An old client of mine has written a book, ‘Leading Beyond the Numbers’, for business people on feeling. She wonderfully, and generously, describes some learning from a set of sessions we did together, in this extract from the book, below: “I still remember my... 
by Steve Haines | Jul 14, 2024 | Pain
Here’s a big question for you: if you have pain in your big toe, is your pain in your big toe? Or is your pain inside of you? We used to always think that the pain was in the big toe. That the issue was in the tissues. And that’s useful to some extent –... 
by Steve Haines | Jul 12, 2024 | Pain
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... 
by Steve Haines | Jul 3, 2024 | Pain
I want to explore a very powerful notion with you – that pain can be like a bad habit. At one stage the reflex to withdraw, to rest, to protect yourself from a difficult stimulus is important. For example, if you twist your ankle, you do need to rest and...
