I’d like to introduce you to the foundational mindfulness based practice that I teach my clients so they can begin to train the brain to unlearn pain.

It’s called the sacred pause.

And it helps you become aware of the thoughts and emotions that fuel pain.

And it also helps you shift how you relate to pain itself.

The fact of the matter is pain perception influences how you experience pain.

And the sacred pause can help you perceive pain differently.

When you perceive pain differently you can experience less pain.

The sacred pause can help you track when you move out of the window of tolerance and enter either the zone of hyperarousal (fight/flight) or the zone of hypoarousal (freeze/appease).

The more we can notice when we flip the lid and default to the lower brain of survival the more we can regain access to the upper brain of logic and reason.

And the more we reside in the upper brain of logic and reason the more we can diffuse the stress response that takes us out of an optimal state of arousal and leads us down a rabbit hole of pain.

Remember at this stage of the game awareness is everything.

Sometimes awareness is all that’s needed to pattern interrupt the fear pain loop.

And the sacred pause will help you grow in awareness and pattern interrupt pain.

As you grow in awareness you deepen into a relationship with yourself where you can live more at the cause of your life and less at the effect of your pain.

The elegance of the sacred pause is its simplicity - 3 simple steps.

Step #1 PAUSE

Step #2 NOTICE

Step #3 OPEN