How Do I Use Both My Left AND Right Brain to Overcome Pain?

Tell Me About Your Pain

Curable and Alan Gordon LCSW

Health & Fitness, Mental Health

4.9 • 902 Ratings

🗓️ 2 December 2020

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, Alan and Alon explain how you can use your left brain and your right brain together, to overcome pain. The left hemisphere of the brain is generally looked at as our logical side. We use our left brain to think rationally and gather evidence. The right brain is considered to be more emotional and intuitive. Alan talks to Amber, who suffers chronic pain in multiple parts of her body. She has a lot of fear around her pain and a lot of doubt that she'll recover. Alan works with Amber on two fronts: First, he uses a left-brain approach to help her see that her pain is coming from her brain and not her body. This calms her fear and her pain fades. Then he uses a right-brain technique to solidify those pain-free neural pathways. In other words, her left brain gets her out of pain and her right brain helps her stay that way. Finally, Alan and Alon give guidance on how you can use these two parts of your brain to overcome your own pain.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Tell Me About Your Pain.
0:03.0	I'm Alan Gordon.
0:05.0	And I'm Alonzev.
0:06.0	Today we're going to talk about how you can use both sides of your brain together,
0:11.0	your left hemisphere and your right hemisphere, to heal your pain.
0:16.0	As always, we're excited to be doing this podcast in partnership with Curable.
0:20.0	Curable is an app for treating chronic pain, and if you like our approach to pain, you'll
0:25.6	love Curable's exercises and techniques. You can check them out at Curablehealth.com.
0:32.6	So before we dive in, one of the questions people have been asking me recently is,
0:38.3	how would I be able to work with someone who comes from the approach that you guys take in this podcast?
0:43.3	Like a pain therapist, do you mean?
0:45.3	Exactly.
0:46.3	And we're going to be starting up a training center to train therapists in this treatment model,
0:50.3	but that's probably not going to be until May or June.
0:53.3	But for the time being,
0:55.2	you could always work with the therapist at the Pain Psychology Center in Los Angeles.
0:59.7	This is the center that you founded based on your approach to treating pain. Right. And all the
1:04.5	therapists are trained in this approach. They all work over Skype. They're all really great.
1:08.7	So if you're interested in getting some one-on-one help,
1:11.6	go to pain psychology center.com. We just added a new somatic tracking video on there.
1:16.6	Oh, exciting.
1:18.6	It is, actually.
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