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Twelve Principles for Coaching Chronic Pain
These principles guide Lisa’s approach to coaching, ensuring that each session is tailored to the individual’s unique needs while fostering a comprehensive, Compassionate, and empowering healing process. This is also part of a Lisa File on Chronic Pain. Holistic understanding Emphasize the deep connection between mind and body, recognizing that chronic pain often involves both Read the full article…
The Lisa-Take on Chronic Pain
This is the introduction to a Lisa File (40 p.). If you want the whole file, please contact lisa@aurelis.org, stating who you are and why you want the file. For more about the Lisa Files, click here. Chronic pain is an enduring challenge that affects millions of people, intertwining with both their physical and emotional lives. Read the full article…
Chronic Pain – Read&Do
This is the foreword to my book ‘Chronic Pain Relief’ that you can find on Amazon (see menu). Economically costly On top of the human suffering, and despite modern painkilling medications and procedures, chronic pain is hugely costly to patients and society. The individual cost is unfathomable. Estimated economic costs are in the many billions Read the full article…
Placebo in Chronic Functional Pain
This is the blogified abstract of a congress talk that I delivered in Montreal several years ago. You find the whole talk as delivered in Montreal at [see: “Placebo as Communication to Neur(on)al Networks in Chronic Functional Pain”] Meaning, expectation, hope, belief… These can be seen as alternative explanations for the placebo effect, as different Read the full article…
29. Chronic Functional Pain: All for One?
Different functional pain syndromes have more similarities than differences. Chronic functional pain as one syndrome The following quote is from Mayer & Bushnell, editors of ‘Functional Pain Syndromes’, 2009, from their word for this Yearbook, published by the ‘International Association for the Study of Pain’ (possibly the most scientifically renowned Association of the world that Read the full article…
Acute upon Chronic Stress
With a particular emphasis on the immune/inflammatory system — both kinds of stress together (modulated by many factors) can be significantly more damaging than their sum. This is, at present, a logical intuition, worthy of further scientific investigation. There is much vagueness to get through. Vaguenesses Of course, ‘stress’ is a vague – although pretty Read the full article…
Who Feels Your Pain?
Of course, you feel your pain. But what is this pain if not your feeling itself? So, the feeling (pain) is simultaneously what is being felt (pain). Then, who is the feeler? Please read first about feelers and feelings. Mind = body Any movement of the mind is a movement of the body and vice Read the full article…
How to Give Attention to Your Pain
Crucial in this is not the attention by itself, but its many characteristics. The primary emotion behind pain is frequently the perception of some threat to which the pain mobilizes a reaction. In acute pain, the reaction involves paying attention to the pain while pulling away from the threat. In chronic pain, the threat is Read the full article…
Opioids, a painful situation
One of the chapters in Part 4 of this book is about chronic pain. Also, in 2020, my Read&Do book about chronic pain gets published. Of course, this is not a ‘cure for all.’ From the beginning – when I started my practice as a physician and was being intrigued by the placebo effect – Read the full article…
20. The Little Man of Pain Inside Our Brain
Pain Neuromatrix: science, no fiction R.Melzack, Nobel Prize winner on the basis of his Gate Control Theory, has subsequently also developed the Pain Neuromatrix theory. In this theory he locates even more the mechanism that produces pain – so the fact of ‘feeling’ pain – within the brain itself. The Pain Neuromatrix is a distributed Read the full article…
A Taste of Pain
Pain is not always easy to ‘endure’ if you necessarily want to ‘endure’ it. There are only 4 basic tastes (or 5, if you count in ‘unami’) that we can distinguish on the tongue: salty, sour, sweet and bitter. All other flavors that we taste with the tongue are somehow combinations of these 4. Makes Read the full article…
26. ‘My pain is real! It’s not mental!’
The outcry in the title is the result of a way of thinking that, sadly enough, still pervades our culture very much. It is as if what is mental cannot be real at the same time. This seems to be very deeply ingrained, so deep that many people don’t even question it at any time Read the full article…
It’s the Philosophy, Stupid
The world is plunging deeper into crisis ― wars rage, the planet burns, political systems crumble, healthcare effectively stagnates despite all the progress, and an existential A.I. cataclysm looms. Philosophical questions lie at the root of all these issues, yet many philosophers retreat from their responsibility to deeply confront humanity’s crises. A realistic view of Read the full article…
Feldenkrais: Art of Mind-Body Harmony?
Imagine moving with the grace of a dancer, the focus of an athlete, and the ease of a child discovering the world. The Feldenkrais Method, a form of somatic education developed by Moshe Feldenkrais, invites us to rediscover this innate potential. Through subtle, mindful movements, it aims to enhance self-awareness, improve physical function, and foster Read the full article…
Seven Ideal Lisa Users
These reflect individuals who would be deeply engaged by Lisa’s coaching style, particularly due to the emphasis on rationality, depth, personal freedom, and Compassion with an emphasis on inner growth. They are searching for more than surface-level solutions and are open to an integrative, deeper way of personal development. For each, there is a short Read the full article…
Lisa’s Job in Numbers
Because Lisa is not data-driven but knowledge-driven, she doesn’t have a long and costly learning curve to tackle some new domain. Thus, she can play a role in many domains relatively quickly. How much of a ‘hell of a job’ is awaiting her? This blog contains many numbers from trustworthy sources. Global numbers Around two-thirds Read the full article…
12 Reasons Why to Invest in Lisa Now
This is an open blog. If you feel touched by it and want to contribute in any way, please email lisa@aurelis.org. To invest This is meant here of any kind except by those who want 100% certainty of a huge return — which, anyway, never happens in investment. On the other hand, the possible ROI Read the full article…