Taking Away Element Two and Three and Getting Rid of the Pain

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In the book, it sthis shows up over and over again that there are sort of three habits that are seen again and again in patience that trigger fear and aggravate narrow plastic pain. They're worrying, putting pressure on yourself and criticism, or self criticism. And then there's these other general patterns of putting our brains on a high alert mode of threat,. This worry and pressure on themselves and self criticism could be completely unrelated to the pain. It could be about how, wer know, performinga work. These drive our brain into high alert mod and that will take the whole pain system and just turn up the volume for any sense of threat. So pain is the appraisal of threat

Yoni Ashar is a clinical psychologist and neuroscientist. Yoni’s research uses brain imaging and other tools to understand how beliefs and emotions influence health, especially pain, and to develop novel neuroscience-based treatments for chronic pain. Yoni is a post-doctoral associate at Weil-Cornell Medicine and completed his doctorate at the University of Colorado.

In this episode, Eric and Yoni Ashar discuss the indicators of and evidence-based treatment for Neuroplastic Pain.

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Yoni Ashar and I Discuss Neuroplastic Pain and…

The indicators of Neuroplastic Pain
The difference between Short Term vs Chronic Pain
Where the body pain lives in the brain
The evolutionary role of pain in life
The #1 thing that drives the Neuroplastic Pain network
How you can eliminate pain by changing various mind-brain pathways
The 3 habits that trigger fear and exacerbate pain
Evidence-based ways to treat Neuroplastic Pain
The problems that come from the brain’s misperception of threat to the body
Somatic Tracking
Ways to pay attention without fear
Corrective Experience
Pain Reprocessing Therapy (PRT)

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