Week 5

Our Guest Expert...

Dr Leora Kuttner

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Recap

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Intolerable

Situation

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Conscious Mind

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The Insight

Unconscious Angst

Pain

Your Practices

The Pain Switch Self-hypnosis = Self regulating

to reduce pain

Leora Kuttner Ph.D. Clinical Psychologist & Clinical Professor of Pediatrics

UBC & BC Children’s Hospital, Vancouver Canada.www.drleorakuttner.com

The Nature of Suffering and the Goals of Medicine

Eric J. Cassel MD.

"All healing consists in, and only in, allowing, causing or bringing to

bear those things or forces (whatever they may be) that already

exist in the patient."

What you’ve already learned• how to breathe and deliberately

increasing your comfort

• how to access your searchlight (direct your attention)

• that pain is merely a signal

• to design your own vehicle to change that pain signal

…the natural next step is the Pain Switch

Pain Switch to Reduce Pain Intensity

Downward Inhibitory influence of your Brain on your Pain

From: “A Child in Pain, What Health Professionals can do to Help” Kuttner, 2010

Let’s do it together now…

The Pain Switch

1. Your Brain is Boss:– 3 x releasing breaths focus on softening – Travel to Brain’s control centre– Find your Switch for the pain (dial/slide)– Turn down the sensation with out-breath– Continue turning down until sensation

change is low enough

The Pain Switch

2. Lock switch in low position

“So that you remain more comfortable & know you can help yourself in this way whenever you need to”

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