This is a great practice. For the longest time, I was AFRAID to visualize anyrhing positive - whether a past memory, or visualizing a good future. Because past memories made me think "oh, this was back when I didn't have pain..." I felt grief, it was hurtful to remember, thinking i wish it was that way again. Imagining a good furure felt like my expectations are too high and I'm just gonna be disappointed and it will not be possible for me anyways. But i finally overcame that fear and thought of especially comforting memories. I thought back to when I was younger and cuddling with my mom in bed. She's here for me through my chronic pain too, but i live far away from her and dont see her. I thought this would be hurtful too, but no. It felt incredibly warm and comforting imagining hugging with her and her being here for me and comforting me, this safety. This practice made me feel so calm, and while my pain didn't really get better much during it, it didn't rise, which for me is a success because funnily enough I've been afraid of positive images for so long. It did change my emotional state though which I count as a big win!
I’m really glad I found this! When I thought of my calming memory it made me tear up, I think in comparison to the pain I was just focusing on. A good release and sign my brain wants to release the pain. Thank you
This helped alot. I was getting relief but when I was asked to think of a good memory my mind started to spiral abit. I dont have many good memories, so I started freaking out about how because I dont have any good memories i'll never heal. My fear is obviously still very high. It brought up a great subject to journal about later on. Before I heard 'good memories' I was getting relief! So its just another sign this is neuroplastic pain.
That's an amazing insight! I bet you, like me, get a lot of help from journaling. Writing about it helps you move the challenging emotions through then out of your body. I also found Chi Gong, havening ,and shaking and dancing helpful to move emotions out, after I sat with them and befriended them with somatic tracking - or if they were too challenging, doing the meditations first, and the somatic tracking AFTER, as Tanner recommends. Best of luck!
This helped a lot Tanner, thank you. I pictured our old golden retriever and I was able to draw on a profound sense of warmth and unconditional love. Really helped to calm the nervous system and to source self-compassion. A fantastic unlimited source of strength.
This is a lovely somatic tracking, Tanner. Imagining favourite scenes, whether memories or imaginal, always helps calm my nervous system. I have a vivid imagination - so can feel like I'm wherever I'm imagining! Thanks, love this one!
Bonjour J' écoute vos vidéos en français sous titrés qui m' ont été recommandé par un canadien qui pratique la thérapie d' Alan Gordon. Ça m' aide beaucoup avec mes symptômes intenses. Lynda
Thank you. I was having pelvic pain and started stressing out over what might have caused it. After doing this practice my pain significantly decreased. It's scary to "go into" the pain, but I did and then it lessened. I'll continue this practice whenever I have pain. I can do it anywhere.
I felt ca,mness in my third chakra, i suddenly stadted to cry, such hurt and sadness, i felt a injury there hard to explain thank you, your voice has presence, suffer from chronic headaches from energy hitting top of my head during meditation
This was very helpful, thank you! I had just fallen and so much pain, and this really got me to relax & calm my nervous system around the pain. Grateful
So grateful for social media FOR ONCE ! Thank you for putting these up. We all know about pavlovian conditioning (dog and bell and saliva) and we can do this with our own brain in any positive way we choose but it never occurred to me. So grateful to have come across brain training. Whenever I think about work (was immense pressure before becoming chronically ill) it instigated immediate anxiety . I'm aware I need to break that to be able to go back to work / get better otherwise it will be a subconscious block to healing. Any tips or just keep this stuff up?
So happy my content is helpful. Yes, brain retraining, exposure, and nervous system regulation are key when I'm working with people to get back to work.
Visualization can help you get back to work. If you vividly imagine being at work and enjoying yourself, talking to people you like, accomplishing a task that makes you feel good - it can help you get over the anxiety. I did that for performance anxiety when my brain misassociated performance with a Covid nerve storm when I went back to performing too soon. Worked a charm! (And if by any chance you CANNOT think of a good experience in a work situation - your body may be trying to tell you something.) Sometimes these symptoms come to tell us to take action in a situation that's not right for us, whether personal or work. Tanner, that would be another great video - positive visualizations for work situations as you've done so well for exercise!
@thedancingdivaofdaviestree2320 thank you. Most memories are from a year of no good memories. When we had no staff. But when I go back there would be more staff. But I'm still worried it will be awful like before.
Amazing job Tanner. It is just not completely trauma-sensitive. Maybe you can help the practitioner by making him or her find some ressources for them before hand and make it a bit safer that way. Sensations can be very very intense and unfortunately triggering.
Thank you for your support I really appreciate your support and contents. Regarding this video, I have hard time bringing pictures or memories...I have to force myself to imagine something....is it ok to do it this way or I can leave it without picture...
Thank you for all you do on here Tanner. I'm suspected to have CRPS. awaiting diagnosis by Chronic pain clinic. Pain in both feet last summer, then burning too around the time my dad died, as well as moving from walking stick to crutches, and then the burning spread. I have other signs that point towards it too. X-rays & scan looked ok.👍 I'm currently reading ' The Way Out' by Alan Gordon and watching lots of videos on TH-cam, especially yours after subscribing. I seem to be making a tiny bit of improvement. I just wanted to ask if all these methods of self help, somatic tracking etc, should help me the same as someone with straight forward chronic neuroplastic pain? Many thanks for your time if you've read this. 🙏
Sorry to hear about your symptoms. Yes, often pain can be a mix of physical and neuroplastic, and this approach can be useful for the neuroplastic component. Keep going!
Would love something like this that's a bit longer with silent breaks, brain fog makes it hard to move so quickly through the noticing and the visualizing. Just a suggestion!
Thanks I Love your Sessions and would also Love to get some Variations of the Same exercise with longer brakes and Overall longer Up to 30 minutes or so. Thank You for your content❤
Hi Tanner! Do you only work with Canadian patients? I’m located in the USA and was wondering if you have any recommendations for me. Thanks in advance!
Sorry to hear what you are going through. Unfortunately I am unable to give direct advice over social media due to not knowing your case fully. I hope my content can be useful for you.
Great content, thank you.. I have physical discomfort in my legs every night, preventing me from sleeping. Ive committed to this practice whenever this negative energy shows up in my legs. But at times the sensations in the legs does not have negative experience to it, just neutral sensations. Does it make sense to do this type of practice when the sensations are not negative (but in the same region where I experience the discomfort)?
Good question. Some people find this still helpful with a neutral sensation in the area, as a way to continuing to teach the brain this part of the body is completely safe.
Do you think you can recover even though you have damage to your spine? Like the brain is still stuck and can eventually get out of it? I really want to get out of this pain! For me it’s a combo of DDD, autoimmune, CRPS and fibromyalgia. Are these just labels and meaningless labels?
This can vary person to person, however we often know now structural abnormalities in the spine do not equal pain. These could be important questions for your doctor. I have successfully treated people with fibro, DDD, and CRPS. Unfortunately I cannot confirm likeliness of if your symptoms are neuroplastic over social media. Sorry to hear about your symptoms.
Good question. This can really vary person to person, and can take some personal exploring. For myself when healing I did brain training exercises 2-3 times a day at first!
You know you're stuck in nervous system disregulation when your present feels so hard that you can't think of any good/safe memories or people or places to cling to.
I'm amazed at both the mental and physical changes that can happen during this practice.
Wonderful. Keep going!
My positive image is a vision I had years ago. I am standing before Jesus and He reached out His Hand of Blessing on my head 😊❤
I wish you the best in your healing!
That’s beautiful ❤
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Thank You 🙏 I have had a very hard life and it keeps me going..stumbling along..but hoping for Salvation.
Tanner, you are so calming, grounding , and compassionate in the way you deliver your practices. Thank you.
Thanks for your kind words. Glad it was helpful!
This is a great practice. For the longest time, I was AFRAID to visualize anyrhing positive - whether a past memory, or visualizing a good future. Because past memories made me think "oh, this was back when I didn't have pain..." I felt grief, it was hurtful to remember, thinking i wish it was that way again. Imagining a good furure felt like my expectations are too high and I'm just gonna be disappointed and it will not be possible for me anyways.
But i finally overcame that fear and thought of especially comforting memories. I thought back to when I was younger and cuddling with my mom in bed. She's here for me through my chronic pain too, but i live far away from her and dont see her. I thought this would be hurtful too, but no. It felt incredibly warm and comforting imagining hugging with her and her being here for me and comforting me, this safety. This practice made me feel so calm, and while my pain didn't really get better much during it, it didn't rise, which for me is a success because funnily enough I've been afraid of positive images for so long. It did change my emotional state though which I count as a big win!
Big healing win! Keep going! 💚✨💚
I loved this meditation. Thank you for your stillness and gentleness of spirit. This was so helpful to me.
I'm so glad! Keep going!
I’m really glad I found this! When I thought of my calming memory it made me tear up, I think in comparison to the pain I was just focusing on. A good release and sign my brain wants to release the pain. Thank you
I"m so glad this was helpful. Keep going!
Soothing. Calming. Helpful. Very, very helpful.
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This helped alot. I was getting relief but when I was asked to think of a good memory my mind started to spiral abit. I dont have many good memories, so I started freaking out about how because I dont have any good memories i'll never heal. My fear is obviously still very high. It brought up a great subject to journal about later on. Before I heard 'good memories' I was getting relief! So its just another sign this is neuroplastic pain.
I'm glad this was helpful. This is a good insight you have had. I wish you the best in your healing!
That's an amazing insight! I bet you, like me, get a lot of help from journaling. Writing about it helps you move the challenging emotions through then out of your body. I also found Chi Gong, havening ,and shaking and dancing helpful to move emotions out, after I sat with them and befriended them with somatic tracking - or if they were too challenging, doing the meditations first, and the somatic tracking AFTER, as Tanner recommends. Best of luck!
@@thedancingdivaofdaviestree2320 This was really helpful advice to look into. Thank you.
Hi Tanner ,
Thank you for sharing this!
Total peace of mind and calmness!
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This helped a lot Tanner, thank you. I pictured our old golden retriever and I was able to draw on a profound sense of warmth and unconditional love. Really helped to calm the nervous system and to source self-compassion. A fantastic unlimited source of strength.
I'm so glad this video was helpful. Keep going!
I love this exercise and bringing the positive image in. Thank you!
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This is a lovely somatic tracking, Tanner. Imagining favourite scenes, whether memories or imaginal, always helps calm my nervous system. I have a vivid imagination - so can feel like I'm wherever I'm imagining! Thanks, love this one!
I"m so glad it was helpful! Keep going!
Bonjour
J' écoute vos vidéos en français sous titrés qui m' ont été recommandé par un canadien qui pratique la thérapie d' Alan Gordon.
Ça m' aide beaucoup avec mes symptômes intenses.
Lynda
Welcome! We are so glad our content is helpful. Keep going!
Nice one. Back has seized up again. Total peace and safety. Saving this one ❤❤❤
Sorry to hear about your symptom. Keep going with the healing work!
Thank you. I was having pelvic pain and started stressing out over what might have caused it. After doing this practice my pain significantly decreased. It's scary to "go into" the pain, but I did and then it lessened. I'll continue this practice whenever I have pain. I can do it anywhere.
I'm so glad this practice was helpful. I wish you the best in your healing!
This is great. Thanks Tanner. Sound quality and pace excellent! I woukd love a longer one if possible
I'm so glad. I will try to make one in the future.
Love this!!! My tight muscles eased up a lot. Pain in lower neck lessened. Can you do one for anxiety?
So happy it was useful. Yes I will!
This was calming, thank you! 😊
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Would love a similar somatic tracking practise. Helps
reduce the fear!
I'll be doing more in the future.
This is my favorite out of all of your somatic tracking practices
I really appreciated the pauses with silence in between your talking. Very effective!
I'm so glad it is useful!
I will try to do more pauses!
This is beautiful, thank you 🙏 I experienced real relief in my pain, will use this every day ❤❤
So happy it was helpful. Keep going!
Thank you 🙏🏽
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So relaxing and stimulating in a calm way. Finding your peace by taking your pain away. Praise God!
I'm so glad it was useful! Keep going!
I felt ca,mness in my third chakra, i suddenly stadted to cry, such hurt and sadness, i felt a injury there hard to explain thank you, your voice has presence, suffer from chronic headaches from energy hitting top of my head during meditation
I wish you the best in your healing!
This is a great somatic tracking, leaning on happy memories. Thank you, Tanner.
I'm so glad my content is helpful. Keep going!
This was very helpful, thank you! I had just fallen and so much pain, and this really got me to relax & calm my nervous system around the pain. Grateful
Glad it helped!
Thank you that was nice and relaxing
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Thank you very much for this guided exercise. It really is something I need in my life right now. Much appreciation from the Netherlands❤
You're welcome. I wish you the best in your healing!
So grateful for social media FOR ONCE ! Thank you for putting these up. We all know about pavlovian conditioning (dog and bell and saliva) and we can do this with our own brain in any positive way we choose but it never occurred to me. So grateful to have come across brain training. Whenever I think about work (was immense pressure before becoming chronically ill) it instigated immediate anxiety . I'm aware I need to break that to be able to go back to work / get better otherwise it will be a subconscious block to healing. Any tips or just keep this stuff up?
So happy my content is helpful. Yes, brain retraining, exposure, and nervous system regulation are key when I'm working with people to get back to work.
Visualization can help you get back to work. If you vividly imagine being at work and enjoying yourself, talking to people you like, accomplishing a task that makes you feel good - it can help you get over the anxiety. I did that for performance anxiety when my brain misassociated performance with a Covid nerve storm when I went back to performing too soon. Worked a charm! (And if by any chance you CANNOT think of a good experience in a work situation - your body may be trying to tell you something.) Sometimes these symptoms come to tell us to take action in a situation that's not right for us, whether personal or work. Tanner, that would be another great video - positive visualizations for work situations as you've done so well for exercise!
@thedancingdivaofdaviestree2320 thank you. Most memories are from a year of no good memories. When we had no staff. But when I go back there would be more staff. But I'm still worried it will be awful like before.
Amazing job Tanner. It is just not completely trauma-sensitive. Maybe you can help the practitioner by making him or her find some ressources for them before hand and make it a bit safer that way. Sensations can be very very intense and unfortunately triggering.
Totally agree. One on one with clients I'm very conscious of this. It's just hard to do via TH-cam. I appreciate your feedback!
Super!
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Thank you for your support I really appreciate your support and contents. Regarding this video, I have hard time bringing pictures or memories...I have to force myself to imagine something....is it ok to do it this way or I can leave it without picture...
Yes, if this is difficult you can skip this portion.
I’m loving your channel. This is my favorite video so far. Thank you!
I'm so glad. I wish you the best in your healing!
Thank you for all you do on here Tanner.
I'm suspected to have CRPS. awaiting diagnosis by Chronic pain clinic.
Pain in both feet last summer, then burning too around the time my dad died, as well as moving from walking stick to crutches, and then the burning spread.
I have other signs that point towards it too.
X-rays & scan looked ok.👍
I'm currently reading ' The Way Out' by Alan Gordon and watching lots of videos on TH-cam, especially yours after subscribing.
I seem to be making a tiny bit of improvement.
I just wanted to ask if all these methods of self help, somatic tracking etc, should help me the same as someone with straight forward chronic neuroplastic pain?
Many thanks for your time if you've read this. 🙏
Sorry to hear about your symptoms. Yes, often pain can be a mix of physical and neuroplastic, and this approach can be useful for the neuroplastic component. Keep going!
@@painpsychotherapy Thank you.
Would love something like this that's a bit longer with silent breaks, brain fog makes it hard to move so quickly through the noticing and the visualizing. Just a suggestion!
I appreciate the feedback!
A trick you can use is to slow the playback speed to 1.25x. Works great when you need a slower pace but you like the material 😊
Thanks I Love your Sessions and would also Love to get some Variations of the Same exercise with longer brakes and Overall longer Up to 30 minutes or so.
Thank You for your content❤
Thanks for this, please make some longer videos like this that can be really helpful❤
Nice one!
So glad it was helpful!
My good memory makes me want to cry 😢 i miss that part of my life..
I wish you the best in your healing!
Hi Tanner! Do you only work with Canadian patients? I’m located in the USA and was wondering if you have any recommendations for me. Thanks in advance!
Yes our company can only work with clients in Canada. Check out the directory on this site: painreprocessingtherapy.com
It really helped me tanner❤❤ thanku...
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Many thanks 😊
Of course! Glad it was useful!
Thank you for this one. Really helped ❤️
Glad it was helpful!
I love this so much! 💕
I'm so glad it was useful!
Tanner I thought you were gonna start hovering above the room LOL
Not quite!
During recovery I am Experiencing dangerous falls and increasingly worse symptoms.
What should I do
Sorry to hear what you are going through. Unfortunately I am unable to give direct advice over social media due to not knowing your case fully. I hope my content can be useful for you.
Great content, thank you.. I have physical discomfort in my legs every night, preventing me from sleeping. Ive committed to this practice whenever this negative energy shows up in my legs. But at times the sensations in the legs does not have negative experience to it, just neutral sensations. Does it make sense to do this type of practice when the sensations are not negative (but in the same region where I experience the discomfort)?
Good question. Some people find this still helpful with a neutral sensation in the area, as a way to continuing to teach the brain this part of the body is completely safe.
Do you think you can recover even though you have damage to your spine? Like the brain is still stuck and can eventually get out of it? I really want to get out of this pain! For me it’s a combo of DDD, autoimmune, CRPS and fibromyalgia. Are these just labels and meaningless labels?
This can vary person to person, however we often know now structural abnormalities in the spine do not equal pain. These could be important questions for your doctor. I have successfully treated people with fibro, DDD, and CRPS. Unfortunately I cannot confirm likeliness of if your symptoms are neuroplastic over social media. Sorry to hear about your symptoms.
Tanner, thanks for this!! How many times you recommend doing this daily?
Good question. This can really vary person to person, and can take some personal exploring. For myself when healing I did brain training exercises 2-3 times a day at first!
Grateful 🫶✨
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Thank you I may of fallen asleep!
So happy it was useful!
You know you're stuck in nervous system disregulation when your present feels so hard that you can't think of any good/safe memories or people or places to cling to.
So sorry to hear what you are going through. I hope my content can be helpful!
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lovely .. just a suggestion.. replace the word pain with discomfort
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So glad it was helpful!
Thanks Tanner what a lovely, somatic tracking exercise. I experienced a lot of self compassion. ❤
I'm so glad you found it helpful. I wish you the best in your healing!