541: Mindfulness for Pain Relief with Christiane Wolf, MD
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Lucas Rockwood
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🗓️ 9 November 2022
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
Chronic pain can be debilitating, so we often look for ways to mask or medicate the symptoms. Unfortunately, the medical approach to pain management can sometimes lead to even worse problems. There is now a growing body of research showing the efficacy of mindfulness practices where you literally observe and accept your pain, rather than cover it up. It isn’t a panacea, but the clinical results are significant enough that mindfulness is now increasingly being integrated into hospital approaches. This week's guest is a medical doctor turned mindfulness teacher and trainer.
Listen and learn:
- How mindfulness can help you separate yourself from your pain
- Why we tend to mask and medicate rather than confront pain challenges
- The importance of natural, non-pharmaceutical interventions
- How mindfulness can be practiced in a secular way or easily integrated into your existing faith
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ABOUT OUR GUEST
Dr. Wolf started her career as a gynecologist in Berlin. She began studying and practicing Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR). She later trained as a Mindful Self-Compassion (MSC) teacher and a MBSR teacher trainer. She is the author of two books: A Clinician’s Guide to Teaching Mindfulness and Outsmart Your Pain.
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| 0:00.0 | As humans, we have very sophisticated no-susception pain receptors. |
| 0:07.0 | You reach out with your hand and accidentally touch a hot pan, and very quickly your body |
| 0:12.4 | will instinctively retract, pull your hand back and shake your hand and run it under cold |
| 0:17.0 | water. |
| 0:18.0 | That's an adaptive pain response, adaptive meaning your reaction is appropriate. |
| 0:22.5 | It helps to keep you safe, helps to preserve the tissues on your hand, but what if that |
| 0:27.1 | pain in your hand didn't last for a day or a week like a minor burn might? |
| 0:33.0 | What if it lasted for a month or six months? |
| 0:36.6 | What if it lasted for six years? |
| 0:38.6 | Sometimes that happens, right? |
| 0:39.7 | Our lower back, our hips, maybe chronic headaches, maybe emotional pain. |
| 0:45.0 | When suddenly we're having a response, a pain response, but there's no more hand to retract |
| 0:49.8 | that already happened. |
| 0:50.8 | There's no more adaptive response to that signal. |
| 0:54.4 | The signal just persists, that's maladaptive pain, and what do we do with that? |
| 0:59.1 | We can ice it, we can medicate it, we can cover it up, we can ignore it, we can push through |
| 1:02.8 | it. |
| 1:03.8 | What about if you just looked right at it? |
| 1:05.3 | What about if you looked it in the face? |
| 1:07.2 | Mindfulness has proven to be a pretty effective way for a lot of people clinically effective |
| 1:12.4 | for managing pain. |
| 1:13.4 | I don't think it's really appropriate to say removing pain or fixing pain forever, although |
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