Transformer la douleur!

Je voulais vous faire partager un document qui explique très bien comment on peut apprendre à gérer la douleur (douleurs physiques comme les migraines, le mal de dos mais aussi douleurs morales)  selon la Méthode Grinberg.

Désolée, c'est encore en anglais...

C'est un document pdf donc je  l'ai mis donc sur un site pour le stocker et qu'il vous soit accessible. Pour le lire,  cliquez ICI.

Par rapport à ce sujet de la douleur, vous pouvez également lire cet ARTICLE  que j'ai déjà publié.

Et si vous voulez apprendre, venez me rencontrer! Vous pouvez me contacter par mail pour prendre un RDV : kateblog (a) gmail.com

Voici l'introduction de ce document que je ne peux résister à ajouter parce que c'est vraiment intéressant :

Pain is one of the most powerful forces to act on us; it is integral to our daily existence, a part of what it is to be human. It may be the greatest struggle that we face in life and is very often a significant factor in defining our behavior and experience. But it is also a power that increases our awareness, being an essential motivator in how we learn, evolve, adapt, create, find new solutions to difficulties and problems or learn from mistakes. It adds to our humanity, giving depth, humility and a sense of mortality; life becomes precious, because pain reminds us that it can, and will, be lost. 

The Grinberg Method approaches pain as an experience that happens within the scope of our attention. It calls for urgency indicating that the body requires attention, a change or has a need, and is thus necessary for survival and existence. Pain acts as a border that we should not exceed, showing us the limits beyond which we would die or injure ourselves. Being a part of the body’s effort to heal itself, it is a necessary and natural experience of the body. 

Pain can be the result of an injury, appear as a constantly aching back, recurring headaches, hurting knees and the like, and can also be experienced as the pain of failure, loss or separation. When pain is short-lived and passes quickly, we experience it but do not suffer. However, if pain is recurring, persistent and never-ending, it causes suffering. It then deeply affects our lives in terms of well-being, from our ability to rest and relax, to our capacity to work, enjoy recreational activities, maintain and develop relationships with people around us and more. 

It is of no wonder that culturally, pain is mostly regarded as an enemy, and we are generally unwilling to experience it. Although each of us will have our own particular style, the act will always be to direct attention away from pain; becoming busy with something else, reducing our breathing and contracting our muscles in an attempt not to feel the pain. We force our body into set postures, responses and attitudes, and shape our attention to exclude it from our experience. Mostly, we are unaware that this is what we are doing, as it is so automatic and habitual, sometimes for many years, and we do not know that there is the possibility of choosing to react differently. 

The Grinberg Method practices a methodology of attention; it correlates the suffering that results from long-term pain with the static way in which we relate to it and the efforts we invest in trying to avoid it. Thus, it teaches people to increase and focus their attention on their bodies – develop their body attention - and as a result, gain control over the automatic way of reacting to pain through and with their body. Although often we are not responsible for the causes of our pain, and cannot be blamed for the situation, we can be responsible for the way we respond to the existence of pain in our lives. Instead of a repetitive response, which entrenches the experience, the Grinberg Method suggests that through a change of attitude, and by applying our will and attention, we can transform the experience of pain. The methodology does not seek to heal, fix or erase pain, but aims to reduce the suffering caused by it, which can many times lead to the disappearance of pain, as the body can then heal itself. 

This booklet seeks to share the view of the Grinberg Method about the way we can learn to transform pain using our attention. The methodology is applied in one-on-one processes, workshops and group activities. 

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Quelques explications...

Par le fondateur de la Méthode Grinberg lui-même : Avi Grinberg.

Il explique ce qu'est la Méthode Grinberg, sur comment ça marche, comment on travaille en tant que praticien de cette méthode...

Pour en savoir plus sur Avi Grinberg et comment il en est arrivé à créer cette méthode, c'est ici.

Je vous laisse découvrir la vidéo, qui est en anglais... C'est très compréhensible, pas besoin de parler un excellent anglais.

Pour ceux qui ne parlent pas anglais, il n'y a pas encore les sous-titres an français mais je vous préviens dès que c'est fait!







Avi Grinberg, founder of the Grinberg Method® speaks with journalist Cinnamon Nippard.
In this interview (brought by the IAGMP http://www.IAGMP.com), Avi Grinberg explains what the Grinberg Method is and how it can be used. The interview includes the following:
What shaped Avi Grinberg's outlook on attention, health and suffering, what led him to teach rather than heal (1:13); People's role in establishing chronic pain, why body attention? (3:58); Why the misunderstanding of the true nature of fear and pain? (6:36); The body's response to fear and pain (11:52); Establishing the school of the GM (14:51); Changes & results in a learning process (15:36); For whom is the GM? (17:33); The GM and the medical establishment (19:06); Ethical conduct when teaching people (19:57); Relating to past traumas (21:47); About humor and learning (23:02).The Grinberg Method (http://www.GrinbergMethod.com) is a structured way of teaching through the body. It uses touch, movement, exercises and techniques to increase one's ability to pay attention. It teaches how to stop limiting repetitive ways of being to allow you to go beyond these limitations, move towards your wishes, and accomplish an actual change that appears in your life and body.


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Challenging 'talking therapies' on fear and pain

Je voulais absolument partager avec vous cet article paru en Allemagne.  Je le trouve très clair et cela donne un aperçu large de ce travail. Il parle également d'une enquête sur comment cette méthode peut soulager les douleurs chroniques. 

Vous le trouverez ici ou plus bas dans le texte. 

Attention  il est en anglais...Je vais le traduire bientôt, un peu de patience...

HEALTH

Challenging 'talking therapies' on fear and pain

No matter what we do, fear and pain are part of life. But the Grinberg Method - which is taking off in Berlin - says we should focus on fear and pain rather than avoid them.

Whether it's stubbing a big toe, suffering chronic pain, or struggling with the loss of a loved one, we experience fear and pain both emotionally and physically.

If we go to a physiotherapist or a psychologist, they're likely to only treat one or the other symptom - the physical pain or the stress.

But the Grinberg Method says that by changing our attitude to pain and fear, we can address those physical symptoms, while at the same time improving our emotional and mental wellbeing.

"Worse than the pain itself"

Jörg Seifarth is a German project manager and professional climber. Last year he started suffering from severe elbow pain and tried everything from physiotherapy and painkillers. But after 6 months he was afraid he'd damaged his elbow permanently and began to despair.

"My personal reaction to the pain was actually worse than the pain itself because it kept me from working out hard and it frustrated me and it was really depressing," says Seifarth.

Then he took part in a Grinberg Method chronic pain project in Berlin.

Seifarth found the method quite unconventional at first, but the pain was almost gone after the sessions. He learned new techniques, which he has integrated into his warm-ups.

The Grinberg Method is a physical discipline that asks 'clients' to focus on the pain

Other people came in suffering migraines, lower back pain, neck pain, shoulder pain and knee pain. Three months after the project ended 72 percent of the 180 participants reported that their pain was still significantly reduced.

"Often when we have pain we hold our breath and try not to move in a way that would create more pain, and a lot of times exactly this kind of effort is what makes the pain stay and get worse," says Emily Poel, a Berlin-based Grinberg practitioner who worked on the project.

Practitioners try to show their "clients" where they are holding a particular tension or "effort" against pain. They then ask them to hold it and exaggerate it. The aim is to teach the person to recognize what their muscles have been doing automatically so that they can stop the reaction in future.

"It's much more than just awareness," says another Grinberg practitioner, Eylam Langotsky, "It's a physical discipline."

Practitioners then teach their clients ways to deal with the pain and fear, which include breathing and relaxation techniques and how to move in different ways.

Teaching vs. fixing

The Grinberg Method was founded by Avi Grinberg in the 1980s. He had trained as a nurse and studied many different disciplines, including reflexology, yoga and martial arts.

But after working with people suffering from chronic health problems for a number of years, Grinberg began asking a different set of questions.

Langotsky says the method is about teaching rather than "fixing" people - and that requires different questions.

"Which kind of tools should we give people? Which kind of discipline should they train in order to get better? And how can they take back the responsibility over their bodies and into their own hands, while the practitioner is actually guiding them, rather than healing them," says Langotsky.

Grinberg clients say the method also helps them reconnect with their bodies.

Just as we try to avoid feeling pain - we also tend to avoid things that

scare us - but they happen anyway. Whether it's a car crash, an abusive relationship, the death of a loved one, or dealing with personal failure - all these things can leave emotional and physical scars that affect our confidence and our relationships with others.

Grinberg says we need to change the way we relate to fear and pain

Anna Schmutte tried Chi Gong, Tai Chi, yoga, homeopathy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy before trying the Grinberg Method. She says all the other disciplines and therapies helped her up to a point but that the Grinberg Method has given her more practical tools to gain strength and clarity in her life.

"When I started I felt much more a victim of circumstances in many situations than I feel now. I have so many tools now. It's just not an option for me anymore to see myself as weak," says Schmutte.

Mind and body

While traditional psychology and psychiatry focus on a person's history and re-telling the story of an event, the Grinberg Method aims to teach people how to identify how stressful events were originally experienced by the body - and how those events continue to manifest themselves in bodily reactions like holding one's breath or tensing certain areas.

"It's not that we are teaching a person to be confident, but we know that if they will stop their insecurities they will be naturally confident," says Vered Manasse, who runs the Grinberg School with Claudia Glowik in Berlin. "So if we're looking at people who went through abusive trauma in childhood, it's not that I have to teach them to be stronger, but I have to teach them how to stop becoming insecure in certain situations and how to stop interpreting a situation today as if it's something that happened in the past."

Glowik also heads the International Association of Grinberg Practitioners. She says it's important to help people reclaim their bodies as a means of dealing with fear.

"You can imagine that with such a history, people have a very disturbed way of how to relate to their own body. There was so much pain inflicted and it's very clear that certain symptoms developed through the years because of that kind of history," says Glowik.

No substitute

But this method is not for everyone. Different people require different kinds of help.

Glowik says the Grinberg Method is no substitute for medical treatment or psychological help - and when necessary, practitioners refer their clients to the appropriate professionals.

"The Grinberg Method is not like a recipe against fear or that you will never be insecure again in your life. It doesn't teach you something that you can now believe in and do it always like that," says Schmutte. "Actually what you learn is that you take responsibility for yourself in whichever situation you encounter in your life. And this means a lot of independence, a lot of freedom, and a lot of self-discipline."

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Quoi faire avec la douleur?

J'ai déjà parlé de ce sujet il y a quelques mois dans cet article. Mais la douleur est un sujet si important dans nos vies, n'est-ce pas? Et en plus, j'ai un outil  à vous proposer.

Dans cet article, j'y décrivais comment nous gérons la douleur en essayant de ne pas la sentir et à quel point cela empêche la guérison et nous coûte beaucoup d'efforts.
Je décrivais aussi comment la méthode Grinberg peut vous enseigner à gérer la douleur autrement.

Et bien, voici une vidéo qui vous montre concrètement comment c'est possible. C'est une vidéo qui va vous apprendre à utiliser votre attention pour gérer la douleur.  Il suffit de suivre les instructions.

La plupart des gens qui ont essayé ont réussi à diriger leur attention à leur corps d'une manière qui a réduit la douleur.

Vous n'avez pas besoin d'avoir une douleur forte pour que cela fonctionne. Vous n'avez pas me faire croire que vous n'avez pas une petite douleur quelque part...

Vous n'avez pas besoin de croire en quoi que ce soit ou avoir une idée de comment il faut faire, suivez juste les instructions au sujet de prêter attention, respirer, bouger...

C'est en anglais mais c'est très simple alors n'hésitez pas. Pas besoin de parler un très bon anglais pour comprendre.


Essayez et voyez si ça marche pour vous!







Vous avez aimez? Alors n'hésitez pas à en faire profiter un maximum de personnes pour qu'il connaisse et essaie cette possibilité. Et c'est naturel en plus!

Si vous souhaitez essayer avec moi, je vous offre une séance d'1h sur une douleur (dans la page offre du moment!)

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