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Attention & Mindfulness

Clinic attention skills: noticing the present moment. Not a spiritual path, and not an Eastern-religion practice.

Attention & MindfulnessClinician-led

Mindfulness-based stress reduction

An eight-week clinic attention class that trains noticing breath, body, and the present moment. Here it is a clinical skill, not a spiritual path.

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Attention & MindfulnessClinician-led

Clinical hypnosis for persistent pain

A licensed-clinician skill using hypnotic induction and suggestion (focused attention plus suggestion) as an ordinary medical technique. Sometimes a modest adjunct. Certainty for chronic pain as a class is often low or very low. Not stage hypnosis, not occult, and not a spiritual path.

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Attention & MindfulnessClinician-led

Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT) for persistent pain

A clinician-led 8-week group class that pairs present-moment attention with cognitive skills for rumination and mood loops that often travel with persistent pain. Clearest chronic-pain signal is short-term depressed mood and mindfulness, not pooled proof for pain intensity. Not MBSR, not an app alone, and not a spiritual path.

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