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Gay Hendricks on somatics, Sarno, and the Yes Breath
Gay Hendricks is a psychologist, somatic practitioner, and author of dozens of books including Conscious Loving and Conscious Breathing. After earning his PhD at Stanford and teaching psychology at…
Simon Cox on the Subtle Body
Simon Cox is a scholar and practitioner whose work traces the history of the subtle body across Taoist, Tibetan, medical, alchemical, and Western esoteric traditions. He studied history at Oxford,…
Dr Thomas Pollak on Balinese witch doctors and therapeutic resets for chronic illness
A couple of months ago, I gave a presentation the set point theory of chronic illness, it was an attempt to use a new language, the language of cybernetics to shift out of this mind body duality when…
Elena Lake on Learning Subtle Bodywork
Elena Lake was a math major at MIT who later transitioned from her software engineering career into bodywork. We talk about her journey, and the role of perception in bodywork.Episode Outline — Elena…
The Set Point Theory of Chronic Illness
This past weekend, inspired by a recent preprint from Thomas Pollak, Mike Levin, et al, I gave a talk on how cybernetic models (predictive processing, dynamical systems, homeostasis/allostasis) are…
Howard Schubiner on Therapies for Pain
We’ve known for decades about culture-bound syndromes that just seem so weird and only occur in a small subculture. Like men in South Central Asia who get the idea that they have semen loss and their…
Avi Grinberg on Pain as a Knife You Resist
If there is a sharp knife pressing into my hand, and let’s call it pain, if I resist, resist it, and hate it and want it gone, I stick the knife deeper in my hand.Try to push it away, okay. Deeper.…
David Chapman on Debugging Illness and Health
In this episode of Pain Points, I’m speaking with David Chapman, a writer and thinker whose work on meaning, meta-rationality, and science has been the most important education I received outside of…
Jozef Frucek on Active Inference, Tai Chi, and the Future of Health
In this episode of Pain Points, I’m speaking with Jozef Frucek, a dear mentor of mine and a pioneer in the world of movement.He uses embodied cognition to combine ideas from Tai Chi, wrestling, and…
Michael Levin on Pain as Agent, Healing as Alignment
“ We try to think about things from the perspective of the state itself. We too are a temporary metabolic pattern, and we have we have mental states and memories and goals and preferences and…
Bren Veziroglu on Teaching Tasks, Not Techniques
Bren’s documentary is out! Watch here More on health, movement, and becoming the whole collective intelligence you are at essays.debugyourpain.com00:00:00 Introduction — Movement Without Reductionism…
A Paradigm Change in Biology
essays.debugyourpain.com## Timestamps00:00:00 Introduction - The Coming Paradigm Change in Biology 00:02:00 The Biomedical Paradigm: Materialism, Reductionism, and Dualism 00:05:00 How Pain Is…
Do we learn tension?
This is a 15-minute excerpt from a conversation I had with Chris LakinA few quotes:Oftentimes people learn to do some self-loathing thing. And the consequence of that is you make yourself smaller…
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