What Is Somatic Tracking, and How Can It Help My Pain?

Tell Me About Your Pain

Curable and Alan Gordon LCSW

Health & Fitness, Mental Health

4.9 • 902 Ratings

🗓️ 17 June 2020

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

Alan and Alon introduce somatic tracking, the most effective technique they’ve found for overcoming chronic pain. Somatic tracking teaches your brain to reinterpret signals from your body through a lens of safety, thus deactivating the pain. Alan talks to Stephen (chronic back pain), Amber (fibromyalgia), and Felicia (chronic neck pain). Alan guides each of them through somatic tracking exercises, helping them to neutralize their fear and alleviate their symptoms. Then, Alan and Alon break down the different components of somatic tracking, and explain how you can use this technique to eliminate your own pain.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Tell Me About Your Pain.
0:04.8	I'm Alan Gordon.
0:06.0	And I'm Alonzev.
0:08.0	Today we're going to be talking about somatic tracking, the single most effective technique we found to eliminate pain.
0:15.6	Before we dive in, I wanted to tell you guys about a free event that our partners at Curable are doing on June 22nd.
0:22.0	It's called Change Your Mind About Pain with Curable Groups.
0:25.6	Curable Groups is a 12-week intensive healing boot camp.
0:29.4	Yeah, there are weekly video workshops with a supportive group of peers
0:32.9	and guidance from some of the top chronic pain physicians like our friend Howard Chubiner.
0:40.3	Like the third episode in a row that we mentioned Howard. Maybe we should change the name of the podcast to tell me about your Schubiner.
0:43.3	Guys, this is the only opportunity to learn about Curable groups and sign up for one until the fall.
0:49.3	Yeah, the groups are really great.
0:51.3	Curable is also giving away free printable workbooks to everyone who attends.
0:55.7	So even if you decide not to sign up for a group, it'll still be worth your time.
0:59.7	Again, that's happening on June 22nd.
1:01.9	You can learn more and RSVP at curablegroups.com.
1:08.1	So over the last few episodes, we introduced the concept of neuroplastic pain.
1:13.9	That's when your brain misinterprets safe signals from your body as if they're dangerous
1:18.8	and generates pain.
1:20.9	Neuoplastic pain is real pain, but it's a false alarm.
1:24.4	Your brain generates pain even though there's nothing wrong with your body.
1:28.3	We just need to change that interpretation. So when I was growing up, we had this fence in our backyard. And
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