Pain Explained Resources

Pain Explained Resources

Courses:

Mindfulness & Pain Explained with Dr Adele Stewart by donation audio Whatsapp course running for 20 weeks (or on demand via Insight Timer). See registration form for next date.

Live online MBSR for Pain course (Pain to Peace).

FREE Pain Explained 6 week course in conjunction with Grand Pacific Health over 2025-2026.

Audiovisual modules by Adele, videos, handouts, books and articles for Pain Explained

Click here for References for modules

Handouts that go with audiovisual modules:
Protective Systems of the Body
Protectometer and DIM SIM’s
Twin peaks, flare ups and bioplasticity

Short Videos that go with audiovisual modules:
Pain as Buffer – fence at cliff metaphor 1 Grant McKechnie Pain Revolution (1.4 minutes)
Pain as Buffer – fence at cliff metaphor 2 Grant McKechnie Pain Revolution (2 minutes)
Brainmain stops his opioids Hunter Integrated Pain Service (HIPS) (3 minutes)
Rubber hand illusion (short video)

Short Excerpts from audiovisual modules & short videos:
Trauma and Pain (Adele’s 3-minute video)
Twin peaks, flare ups and bioplasticity (Adele’s 7-minute video)
The Pain Experience is emergent not linear: (Adele’s 7-minute video)
Neurogenic inflammation & neuro definitions (Adele 9 minute video)
Pain on hold (delayed pain) (Adele 4 minute video)
Pain, Stress, Sleep and Low Grade Body Wide Inflammation (Adele 15 minute video)

Other Modules:
Nerve Pain Explained module (80 minutes – Adele has done a nerve pain or neuropathic pain module of its own because it’s particularly tricky.)
Pelvic Pain Explained
Health Professional resources – Foot Pain Explained; Hand Pain Explained; IFS therapy and Pain; Pelvic Pain & Trauma.

Donations
Donations for Adele’s resources are appreciated and go toward subsidising the formal, more expensive meditation courses such as MBSR and MSC. Click here to make a donation to the value of your choosing by PayPal or credit card.

Other Resources, Links and Research Studies
Mindspot	This free Pain Course consists of five lessons over an eight-week period. It provides the information and practical skills you would normally receive from a mental health professional if you attended a specialist pain management clinic. You can choose to receive weekly therapist support during the course, or you can choose to contact Mindspot when you need to.
Break Awake	Nicole Sachs worked with John Sarno who was a pioneer in the area of chronic pain – although being last century he faced a lot of scepticism. Nicole’s approach is very consistent with all the modern pain neuroscience, and she has a really interesting do it yourself type of therapy she calls “journalspeak” which helps process repressed emotion which is commonly underpinning chronic pain, even when there is an initial tissue injury or disease process..
Pain reprocessing therapy study	This article at JAMA Psychiatry studies the Effect of Pain Reprocessing Therapy vs Placebo and Usual Care for Patients With Chronic Back Pain
Sensorimotor Retraining	ABC article on retraining the brain when it comes to chronic pain
NOI Group website	Neuro Orthopaedic Institute Australasia (Noigroup) is a privately owned education provider and publishing house that covers acute and chronic musculoskeletal, central and peripheral, and neuropathic pain states.
Lorimer Moseley TED Talk	Lorimer Moseley’s famous TED talk on Why Things Hurt. It’s really funny too!
Motivation Video – YOU CAN CHANGE YOU!	The amazing transformation of an Army veteran doing yoga – Never, Ever Give Up. Arthur’s Inspirational Transformation!
The “Reign of Pain” video	Dr. Schubiner’s 22-minute overview describing a new paradigm on pain entitled, “The Reign of Pain.”
Podcast with Lisa Feldman Barrett & Joe Tatta	Emotions And Pain: Advances In Neuroscience And Psychology With Lisa Feldman Barrett, PhD. How emotion relates to chronic pain. Find out about predictive processing and the body budget. This has a transcript.
Dissolving Pain: Simple Brain-Training Exercises for Overcoming Chronic Pain By Les Fehmi By Jim Robbins	These Open Focus meditations are really worth practicing. They encourage us to move away from a rigid narrow focus (which we tend to have when our nervous system is in threat mode) to a wide open focus by practicing awareness of “space” both outside and inside our bodies. Some people find this relaxing and others even experience an altered state of consciousness with a profound change in relationship to difficult experience.
Podcast: Ten Percent Happier with Dan Harris & Christiane Wolf.	Dr. Christiane Wolf is an MBSR, MSC teacher and physician. Her work is at the intersection of mindfulness, self compassion and chronic pain. She discusses her book How to Outsmart your Pain on this podcast.
Tasha Stanton OA YouTube link	Reframing pain for osteoarthritis: Associate Professor Tasha Stanton: Very important message.
More Good Days	An excellent, Australian digital healthcare startup that provides compassionate, evidence-based, and low-risk digital programs to help people with persistent pain get their lives back.
The Missing Link	Mickey Forfa is a brilliant, “think outside the box” young Australian, who has written this book, grounded in pain reprocessing therapy and containing lots of gems which is available in digital form for free and has an accompanying wonderful digital app programme. I am proud to have written the foreword to the book.

Books
Explain Pain	David Butler and Lorimer Moseley (2013) – Further explanation on Chronic Pain in general, available from the NOI Group
The Explain Pain Handbook Protectometer	David Butler and Lorimer Moseley – available from the NOI Group
Heal Chronic Pain. The way out.	The Way Out by Alan Gordon- an easy to read guide to Pain Reprocessing Therapy
Outsmart your pain	Christiane Wolf “Outsmart your pain: Mindfulness and Self-Compassion to Help You Leave Chronic Pain Behind”: MBSR & MSC teacher Dr Wolf describes and guides practices. Comes with audio links to her guided meditations
Mindfulness Meditation for Pain relief	Jon Kabat Zinn “Mindfulness Meditation for Pain relief: Practices to Reclaim Your Body and Your Life”: a beautiful and inspiring little book with delightful, soothing to the nervous system illustrations
Pain Free You	Dan Buglio has written this excellent book based around the concept: “The presence of pain is a very unreliable indicator of the condtion of the body. However, the presence of pain is a very reliable indicator the brain is perceiving danger”. He also has lots of free great YouTube videos.
Mind Your Body	Nicole Sachs (see above in Breakfree podcast) writes so beautifully and accessibly. This book could save you a fortune in therapy! Both Dan Buglio and Nicole use the term TMS which was originally coined by John Sarno. I don’t like the term and prefer to substitute Pain System Hypersensitivity whenever I see it.

Adele’s Meditations relevant to Pain (link to entire folder)