Somatic Tracking with an Emphasis on Empowerment
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- Опубликовано: 23 июл 2024
- Empowerment can be a useful attitude to adopt with our pain sensations.
In this video I go through an example of somatic tracking with an emphasis on empowerment.
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I’m Tanner Murtagh, a therapist making videos on chronic pain and symptoms. I will teach you how to rewire your brain, regulate your nervous system, and unlearn your chronic symptoms!
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*Education and techniques discussed in this video originate from Pain Reprocessing Therapy.
*Reference: Pain Reprocessing Therapy Center and Alan Gordon.
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Disclaimer: The information provided by Pain Psychotherapy Canada Inc., and its director Tanner Murtagh, on this channel is for general informational and educational purposes only and is not a substitute for professional advice, psychotherapy, or counselling. If you choose to utilize any of the education, strategies, or techniques in this video you agree you are doing so at your own risk and you assume all risk of injury to yourself.
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"Letting go of the part of you that wants this to go away. That needs this to go away." I spent so long in rest trying to make myself feel better and the irony is the moment you say that a shift happens in me and I start to relax a lot more and symptoms lift way faster.
Such an important element of the work. I wish you the best in your healing!
Not resisting pain, but focusing on feeling safe...! Thank you!
You're welcome. Keep going!
That was revolutionary. Thank you. When you were talking about being safe, my fatigue symptoms turned into simply a warm and cosy tiredness! Madness. Which video would be the best to share with someone with fibromyalgia as their first introduction to brain training?
I'm so glad this video was helpful. I have a somatic tracking for chronic pain and symptoms that could be useful.
Chronic FATIGUE syndrome symptoms. A real downer.
Thanks for your insightful knowledge & experiences .😃🙂👍👍👍
Of course! Keep going!
Thanks Tanner! You rock.
Thanks for your kind words. I'm so glad my content is helpful.
I love it
I'm so happy it was helpful!
Good stuff. Ty❤
I'm so glad it was helpful!
Thank you for you light. Your videos are really serving me greatly.
I'm so glad they are helpful!
Concentrate on feeling at EASE & feeling courageous
Strength is good enough 😂❤❤❤❤❤
So happy this was helpful! Keep going!
Your videos are great, love the pictures too
I'm so glad they are helpful!
Thanks a lot for your content
Would love to see longer sessions, of eg S.T. 30 min+
Of course. I'll try to do one in the future!
Another great video no it isn't scary to move and walk I accepted this I walk around with my dog and I tell myself I am safe and strong and healthy I even sing these affirmations while I walk thx 😃🙏😘
So happy my content is helpful! Keep going!
I was relieved to hear from you (and Miriam G. B.) not to attempt Somatic Tracking when sensations are peaking. When that happens, the deep tissue massage gun feels helpful. Levels have been down, however, for almost a week. Looking to reduce fear (for me frustration) and not to "fix" the pain is an eye-opener. BTW, my sensations dropped by 75% after 6 straight days of working with an Amish crew washing and staining my entire house. I was greeted by relief the very first day after we were done.
I have had 5 straight days of relief since!! Why? Two reasons: Project Done and Accepting Help. Can you weigh in? Also curious how you "accepted" the pain and walked anyway. I still limp even with sensations down.
Yes it is so important to follow the process. This is how I started to walk while still in pain, I just made sure it was mild to moderate and would do a form of somatic tracking as I walked. Also it is great your pain has dropped, this could be for lots of reasons however having a goal outside of our pain can be really useful. Feelings of accomplishment are wonderful as well! Keep going!
Hi tanner I try practice your excercices an tracking thank u
You're welcome!
I really enjoy your videos Tanner. Thank you for them. I tried the tracking last night and as soon as you said don’t do this if the pain is more than moderate, my pain level jumped way up. I didn’t have that problem this morning. I found this jump exciting as it told me my body was listening and validated the reason for my pain.
This is so insightful you have connected this!
Can I ask you about an earlier video where you advocated being in the body, how does that work? We use our minds to think and experience emotions so how do we focus on our bodies
This is by shifting to focus on sensations in our body and exploring them. This is where emotions are held. Check out my somatic basics video for guidance!
Hi tanner
Im a bit confused about what to do, as you say you can do somatic tracking any time, but most of what i have read and your ad ise is not to pay attention to your pain to much, but i am worried about paying attention every time i do somatic tracking
Can you
tell me what you would advise on this
Thankyou best regards
Terry
Good question. It is definitely a balance and everyone is a bit different. I liked doing brief 2-3 minute somatic trackings throughout the day, and the rest of the time I focused more on my emotional state and trying to enjoy life. However everyone is different and it can take some exploring.
love your conent tanner. just one suggestion. can you please give us a little more time to integrate what you are saying with some longer pauses. thanks!1
Thanks for the feedback!
Sorry i left something out, can you tell me how to do somatic tracking when you are walking please, what to think while trying not to pay to much attention to it,thankyou
I will try to do a video on this in the future. It is too difficult to explain it fully in a comment. Basically in PRT we are also trying to teach our brain that movement is safe.
Tamer please confirm with me if I’m doing it right
When I feel tightness or burn in my chest,
I let it be there and choose to focus on another sensation in my body ?
Yes, this is a portion of somatic tracking! Somatic tracking includes: being mindful of the sensations of pain or symptoms, giving cognitive messages of safety, and positive affect induction (focusing on a pleasant sensation, using positive visualization or images, humour, analogies ect.). I hope this makes sense!
Question: How do you do somatic tracking when there's multiple symptoms?
This depends person to person what works best. For myself I would focus on just one area, one area that is most prominent, or follow the sensations moving around my body. It can take some exploring in seeing what works best.
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Happy healing!
Really well done. Yet the music seems jarring and bit too loud.
Glad it was helpful. I will try to turn it down in the future!
Lie to ourselves 😢. Been doing that for years. Cause we need to be able to LOOK OK. LOOK able. Earn a really good living . Make investments to get cash flow monthly. Too much fears sensations & Allergies inflammation & itchy nerves on cheast & back & arms, etc.(ENVIRONMENTS, Locations , FOODS Allergies.
Frustrating 😤.
Sorry to hear what you are going through. I hope my content can be useful!
I don't really understand why all we do is constantly nonstop observe the pain and how this will change anything I'm not convinced. I've been observing the pain sensations for years and years.
I thought the real healing happens when we reassure ourselves it is our brain "misreading" sensations as pain but really we are healthy. But you almost never address this and don't incorporate it in your public somatic tracking exercises. Its seems like the most important part is always totally absent from your somatic tracking exercises. Is that not how you did it? Or is that only for paid sessions? I'm just confused. Most of us are experts at being aware of our bodily sensations we don't want to get more advanced at feeling them we want to turn down the volume or Retrain our brain, not become experts at observing our pain.
I am already 100 percent convinced its "TMS" i understand all the concepts but i have really been an expert at Being hyper aware of my body and this has caused me to be even more hypersensitive. I naturally observe different sensations in my body what i believe needs to be incorporated is some type of self talk to retrain the brain but I've not heard you address this or if you have it was a brief passing comment. I've watched about 20 of your videos and very much appreciate your trying to share information but i feel like only constantly observing our pain passively is only half of the solution.
If there is some corrective or positive self talk during these tracking sessions i would be grateful to hear it. How much can we continue to observe and describe the pain. Is that how people are healed? If its neuroplastic, that would just be strengthening the pathways and not changing them.
I agree a feeling of safety is crucial but how do we retrain our brain to understand it is misinterpreting a healthy body as feeling pain.
If you did this corrective self talk in your process or if that is part of the brain "Reprocessing" therapy can you please walk us through it. Maybe you never did that part. If you did it would be nice if you would share it.
Thanks for the feedback. I do try to incorporate messages of safety in the tracking, however I will try to amplify this in the future! Cognitive messages of safety can be an important part of many people's journeys including my own. Perhaps I'll do a full video on this in the near future!
@@painpsychotherapy thank you, I'll be looking forward to watching.