Coaching practices for Somatic Tracking During a Big Change
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Does this sound like the set of challenges you might be facing?
- I’ll sit and work on this for an hour straight expecting it to fix things, and instead I end up strained and more fixated on the pain than when I started
- I sit with the sensation and nothing bad happens, but my brain never seems to draw the conclusion from it
- When something hurts inside, I get pulled straight into the story of why
- It’s not pain exactly
- My scans keep coming back clean but the pain is absolutely real, and it moves around and flares when I’m stressed
Practices that may help
- Practice somatic tracking in short, frequent sessions
Five to ten minutes of tracking several times a day is more effective than long rare sessions.
Somatic Tracking, Made Practical - Follow tracking with explicit safety reassurance
After a tracking session, offer the brain a direct safety message about what it just observed.
Somatic Tracking, Made Practical - Somatic Tracking, Made Practical
Somatic tracking, developed by Alan Gordon as the central technique of Pain Reprocessing Therapy (PRT), involves observing bodily sensations — especially pain — with open, curious, non-fearful attention. The goal is to change the brain’s interpretation of safe signals from dangerous to neutral, which can reduce or eliminate neuroplastic pain. A 2021 randomized controlled trial (the BOULDER study) found PRT produced significant pain reduction vs placebo and usual care for chronic back pain, with 66% of PRT participants reporting being pain-free or nearly pain-free. - Track the felt sense during pendulation
As you move between resource and difficulty, notice how each sensation changes in quality — this tracking is the therapy.
Pendulation, Made Practical - Apply somatic tracking to difficult emotions as well as pain
The same curious, non-fearful attention that retrains pain responses can be applied to emotional sensations in the body.
Somatic Tracking, Made Practical - Identify whether pain is likely neuroplastic
Before practicing somatic tracking, determine whether the pain fits the profile of brain-generated rather than structural pain.
Somatic Tracking, Made Practical - Distinguish safe sensations from genuinely dangerous signals
Learn to tell "the brain alarming" apart from "the body warning" so you can track safely.
Somatic Tracking, Made Practical - Track body sensation (the felt sense)
Follow raw physical sensation with curiosity — tingling, warmth, pressure — rather than the storyline.
Somatic Experiencing, Honestly Explained - Track sensation moment to moment
Slowly follow the physical sensations of a freeze response as they change, without rushing to meaning.
The Freeze Response and How to Thaw It - Track the target behavior consistently, not selectively
Monitoring only on good days — or quitting when the data looks bad — defeats the mechanism.
Self-Monitoring, Made Practical
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After a tracking session, offer the brain a direct safety message about what it just observed.
Follow tracking with explicit safety reassurance
- Somatic Tracking At Work
Somatic tracking, developed by Alan Gordon as the central technique of Pain Reprocessing Therapy (PRT), involves observing bodily sensations — especially pain — with open, curious, non-fearful attention. The goal is to change the brain’s interpretation of safe signals from dangerous to neutral, which can reduce or eliminate neuroplastic pain. A 2021 randomized controlled trial (the BOULDER study) found PRT produced significant pain reduction vs placebo and usual care for chronic back pain, with 66% of PRT participants reporting being pain-free or nearly pain-free.
- Somatic Tracking For My Teenager
After a tracking session, offer the brain a direct safety message about what it just observed.
- How To Do Somatic Tracking
Somatic tracking, developed by Alan Gordon as the central technique of Pain Reprocessing Therapy (PRT), involves observing bodily sensations — especially pain — with open, curious, non-fearful attention. The goal is to change the brain’s interpretation of safe signals from dangerous to neutral, which can reduce or eliminate neuroplastic pain. A 2021 randomized controlled trial (the BOULDER study) found PRT produced significant pain reduction vs placebo and usual care for chronic back pain, with 66% of PRT participants reporting being pain-free or nearly pain-free.
- Somatic Tracking As A Caregiver
Somatic tracking, developed by Alan Gordon as the central technique of Pain Reprocessing Therapy (PRT), involves observing bodily sensations — especially pain — with open, curious, non-fearful attention. The goal is to change the brain’s interpretation of safe signals from dangerous to neutral, which can reduce or eliminate neuroplastic pain. A 2021 randomized controlled trial (the BOULDER study) found PRT produced significant pain reduction vs placebo and usual care for chronic back pain, with 66% of PRT participants reporting being pain-free or nearly pain-free.
- Somatic Tracking During Conflict
After a tracking session, offer the brain a direct safety message about what it just observed.
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