Also features

• A questionnaire to assess your stress risk factors for pain.
• Over 20 self-help exercises for reversing the physical and emotional effects of severe stress.
• A CD of brain-stimulation exercises to help neutralize pain and access your inner healing resources.
• Information about exercise and the brain.
• Innovative strategies for coping with sleeping problems.
• Information about EMDR, trauma and pain.True stories from chronic pain sufferers who learned how to control their pain.
• Over 150 scientific references to back up the insights and methods described in the book

Chronic physical or emotional pain is one of the most overwhelming problems we ever have to face. It often fails to respond to normally effective treatments such as medication and counselling. Time doesn't heal some wounds, and sufferers are faced with a desperate need for solutions. One of the most exciting developments in treating pain is increased understanding of the brain's role in pain, based on new brain-scanning technology. Scientists have also discovered that the brain is malleable and capable of being changed throughout the lifespan. This enlightening and practical book explains how physical and emotional pain are stored in the brain, and what causes pain to persist after the injury or trauma that initially triggered it. The book describes five core sensory-emotional skills for reversing the brain activity that maintains pain. These are brought to life through over 20 "brain-smart" activities designed to neutralize the sensory-emotional reactions that maintain pain.

Benefits include learning:

• how to understand and benefit from your emotions, even negative ones
• how to cope with the effects of physical injury with less distress
• how to reduce painful feelings and sensations without really trying
• how to change negative emotional patterns
• how to feel better about yourself
• how to conquer stress
• how to protect yourself against future episodes of pain
• sleep better—naturally
• and much more!

R.R.P. US $39.95
TABLE OF CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION
CHAPTER 1
“a paradigm shift…a worthy contribution to the field.”

Psychotherapy in Australia