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The Way Out: The Revolutionary, Scientifically Proven Approach to Heal Chronic Pain

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In The Way Out , Gordon and Ziv bring together serendipity and science, demonstrating the power of the mind, and how we all can harness our own brains for healing. While I remain skeptical of its success rate, it does seem to make some sense that in some cases retraining your brain might be effective. Very, very useful indeed and an absolute lifesaver if you’re willing to accept that your mind and body are connected and that your brain can cause the pain that you are feeling. The authors before closing their engrossing book rightly bemoan the complete disdain given to the concept of understanding pain, in medical curricula across the globe. I put my name down for a 50 mile road march, my squadron was putting in a team and planning training sessions.

Gordon and Ziv argue that it is not a mere pipe dream for billions of sufferers across the globe to rid themselves from the vice like grip of chronic pain. Another thing I rate this book for, is it’s brevity; there’s enough detail to ensure everything is clear and covered but no superfluous text. If you have mind-body symptoms, you have probably tried just about EVERYTHING to rid yourself of them, and if you are like me, you have struggled to make sense of what's going on or make progress. Alan takes concepts that I had heard of a million times (STOP worrying, pressuring, self criticism) and explained them in a way that didn't make me feel guilty or worse for my current state of affairs.Diagnostiziert wurde ein 1,4cm großer Bandscheibenvorfall, der aber erstaunlicherweise laut Ärzten nicht für die Symptome verantwortlich sein konnte. It's a gradual but steady process, but I feel increasingly confident that I will eventually be completely pain free. I bought it right before the abdominal pain started, not even knowing I would desperately need it right when it was delivered. I haven’t really found it’s helped yet but intend to read it again as the athlete makes it very enjoyable and a funny read.

Psychotherapist Alan Gordon was in grad school when he started experiencing chronic pain and it completely derailed his life. However employing the technique of “somatic tracking” according to Gordon and Ziv enables the patient to concentrate instead on the nature of the chronic pain itself and thereby observe it from the “outside in.Having stumbled across this book and put its recommendations into practice, I have been pain free for over a month. A combination of mindfulness and therapy, somatic tracking imbibes the philosophy popularized by Jon Kabat-Zinn, who helped popularize mindfulness in the West. And yet future doctors are spending less time than that studying something that afflicts more than a billion people worldwide! The authors use every day analogies to explain parts of the process so the reader can be completely confident that they can correctly apply the therapy for themselves. Variation on the same key, really, and kind of bogus that Sarno wasn't credited for saying the same thing already in a different way.

Also known as safety reappraisal, this technique has been shown by scientists to significantly decrease fear. The presence of pain is also borne out in the brain scans which are done on patients with chronic pain. If you’re new to the ideas of the mind body connection and neuroplastic pain, which book is a great starting point. I will be spreading the word to mental health professional colleagues, fellow chronic pain suffers, and anyone who I come across who can relate or wants to help a loved one. I couldn't go on long drives in the car, or help with moving the heavier things when we moved house.

Alan Gordon, a psychotherapist and the founder of the Pain Psychology Center in Los Angeles, was in grad school when he started experiencing chronic pain and it completely derailed his life. I know a fair amount about the science of pain and neuroplastic pain, and have quite a few techniques which I use for helping me on this journey (Curable, JournalSpeak as pioneered by Nicole Sachs, meditation etc), but I have still gotten so so much out of this book. I’m not a novice when it comes to self-awareness, processing emotions, and figuring out my traumas and triggers. I think I was in a period of high stress (living through a pandemic, putting pressure on my newly bigger body to exercise beyond my capacity, changing from a part-time job to a full-time job, stressing over finances and finding a librarian position now that I had a Master's.

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