Meditation for Chronic Pain- Somatic Tracking Exercise to Replace Fear with Curiosity

If you have chronic pain including back pain you can benefit from this somatic tracking exercise from Alan Gordon’s Pain Reprocessing Therapy Pain Psychology Center: https://painpsychologycenter.com/ The Way Out of Chronic Pain, by Alan Gordon: https://a.co/d/6suF8CC Learn the skills to Regulate your Emotions, join the membership: https://courses.therapyinanutshell.com/membership ⚠️ Important note: This exercise is intended for people whose pain has been medically evaluated and is not caused by active injury, infection, fracture, or disease. Pain Reprocessing Therapy does not replace medical care. Chronic pain and back pain aren’t just problems of the body — they’re problems of a nervous system stuck in protection mode. In this video, I’ll guide you through a somatic tracking exercise, a core skill from Pain Reprocessing Therapy (PRT), designed to help calm neuroplastic pain by teaching your brain that your body is safe. Somatic tracking is not about ignoring pain, pushing through it, or forcing relaxation. Instead, you’ll practice noticing pain with curiosity, neutrality, and safety, which helps interrupt the fear–pain cycle that keeps chronic pain going. This approach is especially helpful if: You have chronic back pain or pain that lingers after healing Imaging (like MRIs or X-rays) doesn’t fully explain your pain Your pain changes with stress, emotions, or attention You’ve been told “nothing is wrong,” but the pain is still very real Research shows that when pain is driven by learned neural pathways (also called neuroplastic pain), retraining the brain’s response can significantly reduce pain — sometimes dramatically. In this guided exercise, you’ll learn how to: Observe pain without reinforcing fear Separate pain sensations from danger signals Reduce threat responses in the nervous system Support your brain in relearning safety Your pain is real. And for many people, it’s also changeable. 00:00 Guided Meditation for Chronic Pain: Somatic Tracking with Ala