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Pain is often optional.

You just have to know how to treat it.

Eileen Kopsaftis, a manual therapist who focuses strongly on pain, has made multiple appearances on The Mindful Injury Recovery Talks – there are two other discussions for you to check (Episode 2 and Episode 31). In this interview, we went into detail about things that we can address with proper physical therapy and lifestyle adjustments so we can avoid pain medication, or potentially life-altering procedures or addictions.

In this interview, you’ll discover:

• How the right physical therapy can save you weeks, months, or years of suffering.
• Which meds can cause more pain and which painkillers might not be as effective as we hope they are.
• How to reduce inflammation and pain naturally.
• What to do when you’ve already ‘tried everything’ without much success.

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When it comes to food, it’s nutrients, not calories that really count.

‘Calories in – calories out’ is the motto of most fitness enthusiasts and those who want to lose weight. But there are things that are way more important than only calories – the nutrients. And not just the ‘macros’ popularized by gym culture, you know, carbs, protein, and fat – it’s micronutrients that matter.

When we talk about health and healing it’s important that we focus on those (as well as getting enough calories in so that the body can recover). Because remember, healing an injury, especially a difficult one is not the time for any diets.

Dr. Joel Fuhrman has been at the forefront of the nutritarian approach to eating for decades - and besides being a six-times NYT best-selling author, he’s advised professional and Olympic athletes, lectured to athletic trainers, and world-class athletes about maximizing performance in preventing injury. 

In this detailed talk about eating for true health and ‘play-span’, you’ll discover: 

• In what ways the diet differs for people who are injured in those who are not. 
• How to make a dietary plan for your recovery. 
• What to do when you’re diagnosed with osteopenia or osteoporosis after a fracture. 
• What combination works really well for the patients who suffer from fibromyalgia. 
• How to avoid tendon pain and complications by taking care of diet. 

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Just like your physical or emotional body, your relationship can also suffer as a result of injury.

We like to zoom in on so many things, right? When there’s an injury, doctors zoom in and focus just on that one specific part that is injured and most people play along. When a person is experiencing anxiety after an accident, they zoom in and convince themselves that their anxiety is only a result of their accident. When there’s pain, they zoom in on the injury as well.

But this life is a complex thing and understanding the big picture is important.

And in the same way, we cannot only zoom in and focus on that one specific injured body part, ignoring the whole person, we cannot zoom in and focus just on the individual in this situation because their loved ones are involved as well, and the relationships can suffer, too. It’s actually very common, and it has a lot to do with our levels of openness, intimacy, and how connected we are with ourselves – and our sexual energy.

In this no-subject-barred talk with Claudia Omland, who is a love and sex coach helping women create their dream relationships, we explore how sexual energy can feed into most of the things we do, including healing. (Please note that this one is definitely for mature audiences only.) 

In this episode, you’ll discover: 

• What does sexual energy have to do with healing from physical injuries. 
• How closing yourself can slow down your healing and how to change this. 
• How you can tap into your sexual energy and use it for healing. 
• Why is working on receiving (help, for example) and being open so important for incredible healing. 

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One thing is absolutely true – and that is that you’re a unique human being.

And even though we’re all in one way or another aware of this, we still allow in a way to be crammed into a cookie cutter approach when we’re faced with injuries or chronic pain (or pain that just appears ‘out of nowhere’).

Mags Clark-Smith is a pain relief movement specialist, author and university lecturer with a diverse background that spans from psychology and non-verbal communication, to theater and dance. With her approach to treating pain through movement (and focusing on the uniqueness of each person), she has a number of seemingly miraculous healing stories she can share, and also a very important message.

In this episode, you’ll discover:

• Why your pain is not just in your head and how to resolve it.
• What to do when you experience unexplained pain and doctors can’t help you.
• How our belief system affects the level of pain we experience.
• What steps you need to take to resolve pain.

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Physiotherapy, if done wrong, can hurt you.

There are people who love physical manipulations done by physiotherapists and chiropractors and believe this is the way to go, and there are those who prefer to avoid it because cracking and popping is just not their thing. I’m in the latter group – mostly because of the things that I’ve learned over decades.

There are some methods, especially things like osteopathic and chiropractic manipulations that can cause severe damage.

I’ve been aware of this for a long time, so I’m glad that I could sit down with Tom Ockler to really dive into the details of this topic that can literally save lives. Tom is an internationally recognized physical therapist, teacher, and author who’s been running his practice for over 20 years, and uses a neuromuscular approach, which means he’s never resorting to manipulation.

In this interview, which is essential for understanding physical therapy, you’ll discover:

• How a non-traditional approach to physical therapy can help you heal better.
• About trigger points and why they so often cause problems later on after an injury.
• What to do when the pain doesn’t want to go away.
• Hands-on work: tapping session for reducing/eliminating stubborn pain.

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‘Dying’ is probably the absolute worst-case scenario of any health issue.

There are those people who believe that nothing happens after death, because it’s the end, and then there are those who believe that we either go to heaven or hell, or some other form of afterlife. Who’s right and what is the truth for each and every one of us is something we’ll only know when we experience it.

But no matter what we believe, there are many individuals who died and returned back to life – who had a near-death experience.

This is what happened to Cheri Aimée who faced death not just once, but twice – and the second time, she actually flat-lined for 90 minutes before returning to life.

She had to relearn not just how to live, but how to walk, but what she discovered along the way was a power that each of us actually has within us, and which can lift you from pretty much any depth, if you can tap into it.

In this very interesting talk with Cheri, you’ll discover:

• How to go from ‘it’s probably impossible for me…’ to ‘yes, it can absolutely happen’.
• Why doctors couldn’t believe her incredible progress and how you can apply this approach to incredible healing as well.
• What lessons might be behind our accidents.
• How her near-death experience can help you on this healing journey.

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Depending on who you listen to, almost any food can either heal you or make you worse.

Food and nutrition might be the most confusing topic of all. There’s so much different information available that it’s very easy to just throw your arms up in the air and go, “I give up. I really don’t know who to believe.” I understand this because sometimes it seems impossible to figure out the facts with so many conflicting views and so much conflicting research on the topic of nutrition.

But for millions of people worldwide, Dr. Michael Greger does just that with his Nutrition Facts website where he presents the newest research and addresses controversies in a light-hearted, easy-to-understand way, but always supported with solid data.

He’s also a New York Times best-selling author, an internationally recognized speaker on nutrition, food safety, and public health issues.

In this episode, you’ll discover:

• How to prevent or heal osteoarthitis with the help of specific foods.
• How to prevent blood clots after surgery or when you’re bedridden.
• About the most common supplement that doctors prescribe – but can actually be harmful.
• Which three foods to include for best healing.

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If everything has its frequency, is there a frequency for healing different parts of the body?

The way we perceive our reality is as if every object or person is a solid thing. How could it not be? If it weren’t we wouldn’t be able to tear a piece of paper, or cut down a tree and even injuries wouldn’t be possible, right? But when we start breaking down the tissues, cells, the cells’ organelles, and we get down to atoms and subatomic matter we realize that most of the space is empty and that energy and frequency is what drives everything. So no wonder that sound can actually heal.

You might be familiar with different states of consciousness (alpha, beta, delta, theta) and how they can be stimulated with binaural beats. But what Dr. Jeffrey Thompson does is a few steps beyond.

He’s the founder and director of the Center for Neuroacoustic Research in Carlsbad, California, and the creator of Bio-Tuning modality, with which he can actually discover the frequency of your own body and use it to target any of its systems to promote healing.

In this talk with Dr. Jeffrey, you’ll discover:

• How sounds can not only help you heal physically, but also emotionally and mentally.
• Which sounds are the best for which type of injury / healing.
• How to fall asleep easily even if you have trouble doing that after an injury/accident.
• What to do to speed up the healing process.

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Tapping feels like one of those things that shouldn’t work, but do.

Of course, a lot of the things that are covered on this podcast fall in that category. But I remember first learning about it and not being quite sure how or why this would work. But it does, and it can be an invaluable tool when you’re healing.

If you’re a long-time listener, you’ve heard Brad Yates on Episode 6 as well. The fact is, I really enjoy talking to him, and his creative and often humorous use of EFT, which is also known as tapping. 

In this episode with Brad, you’ll discover:

• How the Emotional Freedom Technique works and why it is so effective.
• Learn about the dos and don’ts when it comes to EFT so that you make sure you’re doing it right.
• What kind of role emotions play in your healing journey and what to do when things become overwhelming.
• Hands-on work: tapping session for letting go of frustration.

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Imagine every doctor you see telling you, “We can’t help you. You’ll never get better.”
 
I remember lying in the hospital back in 2012 when I received my diagnosis and prognosis. Neither of these two looked promising and by the words of my doctors I should have said goodbye to the life I had known thus far.

It takes courage to follow that tiny voice within yourself when people around you are not optimistic about your outcome.

It takes a special kind of resilience to prove them all wrong, and that’s just what Brandy Gilmore did. She got better. It took her nearly 7 years after suffering an accident that left her in chronic pain to figure out that she can heal it with her mind – but today, she coaches top celebrities, entrepreneurs, Olympic athletes, CEOs, and groups worldwide in using their minds to transform their health and their lives.

In this interview, you’ll discover:

• First-hand experience with CRPS and what helped her to eliminate chronic pain.
• How to minimize and then eliminate chronic pain with the power of your mind.
• Steps to make your mind stop playing tricks on you for best healing.
• How not to meditate.

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