Episode 13 - Fibromyalgia Pain Science Education -   Mind-Body Practice - Somatic Tracking - How to do it - PART 1
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This episode continues pain science education of fibromyalgia. 

How to do somatic work, using mindfulness technique called somatic tracking. This episode #13  - part 1 -  deconstructs the script and explains exactly how to do it.   
Part 2 is just the script - use it to practice or as an example to make your own script. 
After you listen to #13 , part 1 and 2,  you may find it useful to go back to episode #12. 

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Episode 12 - Fibromyalgia Pain Science Education -   Mind-Body Practice - Somatic Tracking
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This episode continues pain science education of fibromyalgia. 

Because pain involves both the mind and the body, mind-body therapies may have the capacity to alleviate pain by changing the way you perceive it. If you've been in pain for a while, your brain may have rewired itself to perceive pain signals even after the signals aren't being sent anymore. 
The body-mind techniques, including somatic, guide patients to focus on their underlying physical sensations. 
Somatic work is a great addition to traditional psychotherapy. 
I recommend doing both cognitive and somatic work to help alleviate pain and other fibro symptoms. Somatic work relies on body awareness and physiological regulation.
Several somatic techniques help specifically well patients with pain and trauma. This episode focuses on somatic tracking as an example of using somatic work to help with pain and healing.

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You can see the full transcript: https://www.buzzsprout.com/1890983/10077172

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Episode 11 - Fibromyalgia Pain Science Education - Fear & Pain Cycle
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This episode continues pain science education of fibromyalgia. 

In fibromyalgia, the normal pre-wired by nature to feel fear or danger signals is dysregulated. The nervous system is more sensitive and gets activated more frequently into a danger state, the flight or fight response; it experiences a fear whole lot more often and longer than someone who has a more balanced nervous system. 
Additionally, how the brain reacts reinforces the experiences as dangerous or safe. 
So our brain is pre-wired to view pain as dangerous, as a surviving mechanism. When we react to pain with fear, it reinforces that experience as dangerous. 

The more you fear pain, the more it puts the brain in a state of danger or high alert, activates the nervous system to fight or flight, the more fear you get. The more fear we have, the more pain we feel. The more pain you have, the more fear you feel, which leads to more pain. The brain is stuck in the fear–pain cycle or loop.

You can see the full transcript: https://www.buzzsprout.com/1890983/10031959

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Episode 10 - Fibromyalgia Pain Science Education - - Fibro Pain and Neuroplasticity
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This episode continues pain science education of fibromyalgia. 

Neuroplasticity is a general umbrella term that refers to the brain's ability to modify, change, and adapt in structure and function throughout life and response to experience. The brain cells and neurons can make the circuit and network changes resulting from learning a new ability, environmental influences, practice, physical and psychological stress.
Brain cells are "neurons that fire together, wire together." When your brain experiences pain over and over, the neurons responsible for dealing with pain are wired together. The more pain you have, the better these neurons, brain cells fire together. If we do something repeatedly, the brain develops a routine, a route for the neurons to do their job automatically or easier. 
Your brain can unintentionally learn how to deal with pain incorrectly. The pain gets stuck, like a bad habit. This pain type, the learned pain, we call neuroplastic pain.
Neuro means brain, plastic means adapted, modified, developed. So neuroplastic pain is pain produced when the brain changes to reinforce this pain.  
This episode explains that fibromyalgia pain is neuroplastic pain,  how it develops, and why. 

You can see the full transcript:  https://www.buzzsprout.com/1890983/episodes/9977704

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Episode 9 - Fibromyalgia Pain Science Education - Stress part 3
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This episode continues pain science education of fibromyalgia. 

We continue the discussion about how pain and stress are related.

You need to understand that thoughts and beliefs influence the degree of pain, severity, and coping with pain. 

Automatic thoughts – frequently occurring, situation-driven, thoughts often happen without our input or consciousness. They are automatic, without awareness, but influence the ultimate selection of the coping strategy. 

We have beliefs about pain – the nature of pain, the cause of pain, and appropriate treatment, these beliefs influence distress and disability. 

We also have acquired beliefs about our control of pain. We have many beliefs about our ability to cope with it, our ability to control pain, how effective we are in our own self-management of pain, and self-efficacy. 

Our brain uses automatic thoughts and beliefs to cope with pain stressors and reduce the stress effect. Based on these thoughts and beliefs, we may have good and maladaptive coping behaviors. 

Negative automatic thoughts generally worsen our mood, negatively affect our actions and increase the pain and other symptoms. 

You can see the full transcript:  https://www.buzzsprout.com/1890983/9953813

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Episode 8 - Fibromyalgia Pain Science Education - Stress part 2
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This episode continues pain science education of fibromyalgia.

We continue the discussion about how pain and stress are related.

Our brain appraises every situation we encounter through primary and secondary appraisals. Every situation, experience, circumstance, and body sensation, including pain, is judged by our brain as harmless or stressful; it is instantaneous and automatic. 

Harmless experience does not activate the stress response of the nervous system. 

Stressful situations will further be accessed as a threat, loss, or challenge. 

The most common way the brain in patients with fibromyalgia and other chronic pain conditions appraises stress or pain as a threat. There is increased focus on pain, diminishing attention, worsening memory and concentration, commonly known as fibro fog. 

The loss is often associated more with consequences of chronic pain – loss of function, income, relationships. However, the goal is to learn how to see pain as more of a challenge, something you can cope with that does not overwhelm the body and mind. 

 
You can see the full transcript:  https://www.buzzsprout.com/1890983/9893923

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Episode 7 - Fibromyalgia Pain Science Education - Stress part 1
This episode continues pain science education of fibromyalgia.
We start the discussion about how pain and stress are related.
Many of my patients tell me that they experience fibro flares when they are under a lot of stress. Stress is a situation that is difficult to cope with, and that creates a reaction in the body – physical, mental, emotional, and behavioral.
Different people cope with circumstances differently and have different reactions to a similar situation.
Pain is a major ongoing stressor. It produces every type of stress response – biological/physical, emotional, behavioral, and mental changes.

You can see the full transcript:  https://www.buzzsprout.com/1890983/episodes/9852821-fibromyalgia-pain-science-education-stress-part-1

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Episode 6 - Fibromyalgia Pain Science Education: what do toddlers, a magic trick, and fibro pain have in common?
This episode starts the pain education series. In this episode, I am talking about the foundation of pain science. Most of us think of pain as directly linked to body damage or tissue injury. I will explain how pain does not necessarily mean damage. Anticipation of pain, stress, emotions, memories, and many other triggers can trigger the sensation of pain. This is an important concept that must be understood if you want to find a solution for pain improvement.
You can see the full transcript:  https://www.buzzsprout.com/1890983/9751127-fibromyalgia-pain-science-education-what-do-toddlers-a-magic-trick-and-fibro-pain-have-in-common

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Episode 5 - Fibromyalgia treatment - Do you care for yourself? 6 types of self-care

This episode focuses on self-care. It is not as simple as eating well and exercising. Learn more about why self-care is essential and what you need to do to embrace it.

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Episode 4 Fibromyalgia treatment - what can you do right now?