The New Change Your Brain, Change Your Pain · Based on EMDR by Grant, Mark -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Half Title Title Copyright Dedication Contents Audio downloads Introduction

Part One: Know Your Brain Know Your Pain

1. Your Brain in Pain

First principles Introducing your brain Bottom up and top down processing: Bottom-up and top-down processing of pain Left and right hemisphere processing of pain Two key brain functions that maintain pain Summary

2. How Pain Gets into Your Brain

Stress, pain, and your brain How severe stress leads to pain Biochemical effects of severe stress Summary

3. 7 ‘Brain-Smart’ Steps to Change Pain

Top-down and bottom-up strategies for overcoming pain EMDR: The first ‘brain-smart’ approach for overcoming pain 7 ‘Brain-Smart’ Steps to Overcoming Pain Summary

Part Two: Bottom-up Strategies for Changing Pain

4. Tame Your Pain (touch)

Why we need touch Why we are afraid to touch What is Healing Touch? How to use Healing Touch to feel better Four ‘Healing Touch’ strategies for taming your pain Summary

5. Tame Your Pain (Bls)

What is the Orienting Response and why does it matter? What is bilateral stimulation? How can bls help you feel better? Bls at work: June’s story How to use bls to tame your pain How to use the bilateral stimulation audio resources Overcoming attention problems Other sensory strategies Summary

6. Understanding Feelings

What are feelings and why do they matter? Emotions and Your Brain Normal emotional reactions to chronic pain Summary

7. Regulating emotions

Accepting feelings Interpreting feelings Bilateral stimulation Touch Enjoyable activities Sharing feelings Acting on Feelings Mindfulness strategies Summary

8. Trauma processing

What is EMDR and how is it different from other therapies? How EMDR changes your brain Trauma and pain Dissociation: the key to pain memories The eight stages of EMDR The positive cognition What happens in an EMDR session? Esther’s story: healing accident-related pain and trauma How you can benefit from EMDR Summary

9. Self-Care (emotional)

Emotional Self-Care and Your Brain Attachment problems and pain How to tell if you do not have enough social support How to increase your emotional support Safety Spiritual practices Summary

10. Self-Care (physical)

What is sleep and why do you need it? Pain and sleep Five ways to sleep better Exercise and Pain The Benefits of Exercise How to exercise Diet and Pain Summary

Part Three: Top-down Strategies for Overcoming Pain

11. Uncovering the Meaning of Your Pain

The PFC — where ‘you’ come from Core negative self-beliefs How to uncover the meaning of your pain How to develop a positive post-pain identity Developing healthy self-beliefs Summary

12. Dealing with other stressors

Life is stressful Effects of chronic pain on relationships ‘3 is a crowd’: the problem of third-party involvement The blame game The lack of a medical diagnosis Managing expectations regarding medical treatment Dealing with ‘other stressors’ Other cognitive strategies Summary

13. Reintegration

Normal brain, normal you How I lost my hand and found my life: The Michael Weisskopf Story Looking forward You can go your own way Summary

Appendices

Appendix A Appendix B Appendix C Appendix D Appendix E

References Index Back Cover