Hal Greenham & Dr. Howard Schubiner – Freedom from Chronic Pain

In this first part of the course, you’ll begin with the all-important first step: diagnosis.

The pain that you feel in your body is real — and an incorrect diagnosis will stand in the way of you getting better.

In this module, you’ll gain an understanding of how the brain works and learn to apply predictive coding to your situation.

Your body produces pain because it’s manifesting unresolved stress, and under Hal and Howard’s guidance, you’ll look for the links between stressful life events and your pain — beginning in early childhood and continuing into your present-day circumstances and personality traits…

You’ll dive deep into Mind Body Syndrome (MBS)/Tension Myoneural Syndrome (TMS), the powerful phenomenon in which unconscious emotional issues jumpstart a process that causes physical pain and other symptoms…

In this module, you’ll discover:

• Which symptoms and diagnoses are likely to be caused by MBS/TMS (including fibromyalgia, whiplash, tension headaches, migraine headaches — and many, many more)
• Why back or neck pain that doesn’t correspond to an abnormal MRI results means you might have MBS/TMS
• Lessons from powerful research showing that people can experience mild-to-moderate changes on MRI without corresponding back or neck pain
• Exactly why baseline MRIs and follow-up MRIs are NOT useful predictors of low back pain
• What’s happening inside your body when an emotion causes a physical reaction (for example, your face turning red with embarrassment, or a headache after a stressful day)

During this class, you’ll discover powerful practice to rewire your brain — and help relieve your pain.

Some of the techniques include meditative work, desensitization, graded exposure, reducing fear, taking control of triggers, and more. Over the seven modules of the course, these techniques will all become tools in your pain-management arsenal.

Now that you’re aware that your brain has developed pathways that are causing your MBS symptoms primarily because of stressful events, you’ll begin to explore how these painful pathways can be unlearned.

In this module, you’ll discover:

• How to successfully interrupt the neural pathways that are producing pain or other MBS symptoms
• How to reactivate your many normal, healthy neural pathways that existed before you were in pain
• Evidence that your symptoms are coming from neural pathways that are changeable — including having symptoms that come and go, or pain that changes locations in your body
• Why adjusting how you think and react to stressful situations can change your brain and its pathways
• How your brain physically changes with the practices you’ll learn, therapy, and the resolution of psychological symptoms (a phenomenon first witnessed in people with spider phobias)
• How you can investigate your symptoms and keep track of the powerful clues your brain is sending you about how to most effectively ease your pain

This class session will build on what you learned last week about rewiring your brain — you’ll deepen your ability to stop (unintentionally) reinforcing your pain.

You’ll experience the breakthrough of realizing there’s no need to be frustrated about your discomfort, or to fight your pain…

Hal and Howard will guide you to welcome in this powerful truth: there is no need to fix anything, because you’re not broken.

In this module, you’ll discover:

• The profound power of relaxing and calming your brain — and how you can resolve to stop struggling against your pain
• The fundamentals of pain triggers, and what’s happening inside your body and brain when they strike
• The conditioned responses you’ve likely developed (without even realizing it) to elements like the weather, light, sound, bending your body, moving, and more
• Anticipatory pain — and why expecting to be in pain can sometimes feel worse than actually experiencing it

In this session, Hal and Howard will guide you to understand the family dynamics you grew up with — and how they can exacerbate the chronic pain process.

If you’re like most people, you likely have an established set of emotional patterns within your family of origin, leaving many feelings either under or over-expressed…

Then, as adults, experiences in relationships or work situations can trigger these complex childhood dynamics — flooding the unconscious mind and producing powerful symptoms.

In this session, you’ll discover a powerful structure for gathering insightful information on your family history — and deciding what to do with the associated accompanying feelings.

As you’ll find out, sometimes it’s best to express the feelings, and other times its more healing to accept them…

In this module, you’ll discover:

• How your inner child is the essence of who you are, and what makes you unique
• A deep understanding of the feeling part of the self — it’s only partly conscious, yet it contains vast realms of feeling and awareness
• Why you’ve likely learned numerous techniques of disconnection to separate the adult and child within you
• How to nurture your inner child to uncover the root of your pain
• Clarity on what might be happening inside your unresolved feelings that are manifesting in your body

During this class, you’ll build on the inner child work you completed in the previous class session — and and bring your inner parents, inner protectors, and other relevant parts of the subconscious mind into focus.

As you’ll discover, the inner dynamics of these parts are absolutely critical to creating your experience of physical and emotional wellness.

In this module, you’ll:

• Create peace with your subconscious mind by making a meaningful connection with your inner child
• Master the art of your subconscious mind into a lively, peaceful state — one that calms your nervous system for the long term
• Discover how to maintain the secure, safe relationship you’ve built with your inner child
• How these connections are powerful medicine for reducing physical pain, reducing anxiety — and creating peace in your psyche and your life

The holiday season can often be among the most emotionally stressful, triggering, and challenging times of the year. This week, you’ll discover how to transform these triggers into a source of insight — and develop a container for healing.

Unless you had perfect parenting for a few generations in a row (which of course, virtually no one has), difficult emotions will rise to the surface during these triggering times, emerging on a spectrum ranging from mild to severe in their intensity.

Creating a container for healing allows you to experience the emergence of difficult feelings, thoughts and memories — without being overwhelmed by them.

Hal and Howard’s favorite analogy for healing your trauma through your container involves picturing a bottle of soda… completely shaken up. There are many emotions inside that want to escape — and if you take the lid off too quickly, they’re going to explode.

And so in this session, you’ll learn to create a container for healing that allows you to release the pressure of your emotions a bit at a time, until you’ve released enough pressure that it can all be poured out easily — and your healing can take place…

In this module, you’ll discover:

• The elements of an effective container for healing — including your physical and emotional environment, your routines and rituals, positive relationships, and more
• Supportive practices including meditation and journaling to process feelings
• The importance of therapeutic relationships (maybe with a therapist, doctor, or other trusted healthcare professional) to help guide you on your healing journey
• How to choose the best pace for YOU to discover and process your unconscious material — so you won’t become overwhelmed or lose interest in the process
• An exercise to walk you through an honest assessment of your current container for healing — and how you can enhance what’s already working
• How to recognize whether your strong physical symptoms are already providing a container for you — unfortunately, they’re most likely distracting your attention and repressing your feelings

In this final session with Howard and Hal, you’ll work on moving forward with your life.

How do you take what you’ve learned and step forward confidently into your new body? How will life be different now, with significantly less pain holding you back?

During this class, you’ll move forward into creating the kind of life that’s now possible for you.

In this module, you’ll discover:

• Important practices for integrating what you’ve learned on your journey through this course
• Concrete steps to make powerful, lasting changes to your life
• How dynamics with your family and other relationships might change
• How to approach difficult situations and do what you need to do to maintain your well-being
• How to feel empowered to get back into the life you may have had on hold for far too long