Calm Your Pain Practices

These practices include visualizations and mediations that I have learned over the years. They are intended to help calm a person’s often over-active nervous system to help decrease their pain. Consistent practice of meditation has been proven by research to help decrease peoples pain experience. 

 Open Focus: I learned these visualizations from the book, Open Focus and Dissolving Pain by Les Fehmi and Jim Robbins.  These are simple brain exercises to help teach the brain to focus and calm on different areas to shift its habitual attention to one’s pain.

 Spaciousness: These are lessons I created to help a person feel more open and lighter since often the experience of on-going pain can tighten up the muscles and the overall experience in one’s body.

 Meditations: There are a variety of guided meditations for you to listen to. I refer to one set from Russell Delman who I have studied with for over 25 years. (www.RussellDelman.com)

 Calm Your Pain Practices: These are visualizations that I have learned from Russell Delman and others.

78 Sleep Relaxation

  1. Natural Breathing Intro — 11:01 min

  2. The Depth — 8:56 min

  3. Natural Breathing-Spaces Less is More — 17:13 min

  4. Mudra in Motion — 15:04 min

  5. Making Room — 18:15 min

  6. Yoga Nidra for Sleep — 13:06 min

79 Day Tamers

  1. Breath and Hand Warming — 3:41 min

  2. Just Breathing with Thumb Press — 6:29 min

  3. Five Finger Exhale — 6:05 min

  4. The Depth and Counting — 5:02 min

  5. Head Nod — 5:42 min

  6. Tranquil Eyes — 8:50 min

80 Body Relaxation

  1. Tracking Body Sensations — 5:13 min

  2. Allowing Body Sensations — 4:10 min

  3. Scanning - Opposites — 12:19 min

81 Open Focus

  1. Open Focus Induction — 10:56 min

  2. Open Focus Intro Hands — 13:55 min

  3. Open Focus General Training — 20:41 min

  4. Open Focus Head — 19:33 min

  5. Open Focus in Life — 17:41 min

  6. Open Focus Dissolving Pain — 20:53 min

83 Body Scan

  1. Sand — 10:38 min

  2. Balance Beam — 9:15 min

86 Focusing

  1. Intro Focusing — 7:13 min

  2. Something In Me — 2:00 min

  3. Focusing Longer — 15:45 min

  4. Focusing With Sensation — 8:18

87 Spaciousness

  1. Spaciousness — 8:35 min

  2. Open Focus Induction — 10:56 min

  3. Safe Space Bubble — 6:38 min

  4. Moving In Your Bubble — 5:27 min

  5. Bring Space to Pain Inside and Out — 4:43 min

88 Meditation: Basics

  1. Intro — 5:56 min

  2. Basic — 11:21 min

  3. Counting — 9:00 min

  4. Grounding — 10:09 min

  5. Golden Ball — 7:20 min

  6. Sitting with Sensation — 8:35 min

89 Meditation: From R. Delman

  1. Essential Practice 12:30 min

  2. Pauses That Refresh 14:35 min

90 Meditation: Other

  1. Grounding — 10:09 min

  2. Golden Ball — 7:20 min

  3. Sitting with Sensation — 8:35 min

  4. Connection Emotion Sensations — 12:46 min

  5. Breathing Thru Whole Self — 10:51 min

91 Meditation: Visualizations

  1. Bring Space to Pain Inside and Out — 4:43 min

  2. Open Focus Induction — 10:56 min

  3. Placing Things Aside — 14:06 min

  4. TREE Visualization — 9:04 min

  5. Meditation: Loving Kindness — 12:25 min

  6. Meditation: Day In Review — 12:30 min

  7. Meditation: Evoking the Good — 7:00 min

  8. Loving Kindness - Smile — 16:48 min

92 Calm Your Pain Practices: Visualizations

  1. Place of Safety — 10:51 min

  2. Day In Review — 2:50 min

  3. Loving Kindness — 5:09 min

  4. From Pain to Sensation — 10:40 min

  5. A Taste of Life — 2:36 min

  6. Spaciousness — 8:36 min

  7. Meeting Your Pain — 15:10 min

  8. Experience a Quality — 10:16 min

  9. Grounding Orienting — 5:01 min

  10. Bring Space to Pain Inside and Out — 4:48 min

  11. Breath Breaks — 01:16 min

  12. Ground Sound Breath — 1:43 min

  13. Releasing Others — 13: 45 min

94 Calm Your Pain Movement

  1. Push Thru Foot — 11:50 min

  2. Segmental Sitting — 11:37 min

  3. Sitting Options — 26:14 min

  4. Lift Press Ground — 9:14 min

  5. Alien Hands and Head — 15:30 min

  6. Sitting Postural Habits — 9:01 min

  7. Shoulder Relaxation — 13:11 min

  8. Folding Around the Golden Ball — 17:36 min

  9. Standing Grounding Through Feet — 22:54 min

Medical Disclaimer: These practices are not intended to be a substitute for the medical advice of physicians.