Dissolving Pain: Simple Brain-Training Exercises for Overcoming Chronic Pain

Dissolving Pain: Simple Brain-Training Exercises for Overcoming Chronic Pain

Dissolving Pain: Simple Brain-Training Exercises for Overcoming Chronic Pain

Dissolving Pain: Simple Brain-Training Exercises for Overcoming Chronic Pain

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Overview

This guide to harnessing the power of the brain to resolve chronic pain includes a variety of simple attention exercises and a 65-minute guided audio program
 
For four decades, Dr. Les Fehmi has been a leader in brainwave biofeedback (also called neurofeedback), training individuals how to balance and regulate their brainwave patterns to improve mental, emotional, and physical health.

Dissolving Pain is based on the premise that although pain is perceived to exist in a particular part of the body, pain in fact resides in the brain. Drawing on existing scientific research and on decades of clinical experience, Dr. Fehmi offers brain-training exercises that quiet the pain signal in the brain. The exercises involve altering the way we pay attention to pain, cultivating what Fehmi calls Open-Focus Attention: a relaxed form of awareness that changes the neural blood flow and increases alpha brainwave activity (associated with reduced stress and beneficial hormonal changes). These exercises are effective in the treatment of many forms of pain including back, shoulder, neck, and joint pain; headaches; muscle pain and tension; and pain from traumatic injury.

Included with the book is a link to a 65-minute downloadable audio program in which Dr. Fehmi guides listeners through the fundamental Dissolving Pain exercises. To learn more, visit openfocus.com.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781590307809
Publisher: Shambhala
Publication date: 09/14/2010
Pages: 224
Sales rank: 480,657
Product dimensions: 9.24(w) x 11.06(h) x 0.56(d)

About the Author

Dr. Fehmi is the Director of the Princeton Biofeedback Centre, LLC, located in Princeton, New Jersey. He is a past consultant to the Veterans Administration, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, and a researcher at NASA-AMES Stanford University, UCLA’s Brain Research Institute and Lockheed Aircraft Company. He has developed and patented phase-sensitive EEG biofeedback instrumentation and training programs.

Jim Robbins is an award-winning journalist and science writer, with frequent contributions to the New York TimesSmithsonianScientific AmericanDiscover, and Psychology Today. In connection with his reporting, he has appeared on ABC’s Nightline and on NPR’s All Things Considered and Morning Edition.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments vii

Introduction 1

1 The Power of Attention 7

Exercise: Reading This Book in Open Focus 19

2 A New Approach to Pain 22

Exercise: A Feeling of Space 30

3 The Conventional Understanding of Pain 36

Exercise: Head and Hands 41

4 The Domain of Pain Is Mainly in the Brain 49

Exercise: General Training in Open Focus 60

5 The Role of Attention in Pain 68

6 The Miracle of Space 74

Exercise: Localizing Pain 80

7 The Full Range of Attention 88

8 Dissolving Pain 99

Exercise: Dissolving Pain 108

9 Eye, Head, and Neck Tension and Pain 115

Exercise: Eye-Centered Open Focus 122

10 Emotions and Pain 129

Exercise: Dissolving Head, Neck, and Shoulder Pain 139

11 Dissolving Tension and Pain for Peak Performance 145

Exercise: Using Open Focus in Daily Life 152

12 Living a Pain-Free Life 158

Exercise: Dissolving Pain (Short Form) 167

Appendix: Creating a Personal Program for Dissolving Pain 171

Index 175

About the Authors 181

List of Audio Tracks 182

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