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Eric Garland – Working with Addiction & Pain

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February 12, 2021

In this episode, Wendy speaks with clinical researcher and psychotherapist Eric Garland. Eric has spent his career developing effective ways to use mindfulness and other contemplative approaches for problems like addiction and chronic pain. Their conversation covers many topics, including:

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  • how early mystical experiences led him to a contemplative path;
  • the power of meditation to heal and restore well-being;
  • self-transcendence and non-dual states of consciousness;
  • the features of his intervention, Mindfulness-Oriented Recovery Enhancement (MORE), and its application for addiction and chronic pain;
  • how reappraisal can help in difficult situations;
  • the role of savoring and reconnecting with natural rewards;
  • deconstructing pain;
  • a large clinical trial showing how effective MORE is, and how it might work;
  • and the biggest lesson he’s learned from his work so far.
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Episode List

Below is a full list of episodes since the show began in April 2020. Enjoy!

1. Thupten Jinpa – Cultivating Compassion
2. Anil Seth – How Our Minds Predict Our Reality
3. Willa Blythe Baker – Meditating with the Body
4. john powell – Othering and Belonging
5. Amishi Jha – Attention, Mind Wandering, and Stress
6. Tanya Luhrmann – How Social Worlds Shape Our Minds
7. Richie Davidson – The Science of Meditation
8. Doris Chang – Critical Consciousness
9. Evan Thompson – Expanding Our View of the Mind
10. Andreas Roepstorff – Interacting Minds
11. Adam Hanley – Taking Your Mind Off Autopilot
12. Jack Kornfield – Wisdom for our Times
13. Lisa Feldman Barrett – Your Emotions Aren’t What You Think
14. Anne Klein – The Wisdom of the Body
15. Eric Garland – Working with Addiction & Pain
16. John Dunne – At the Crossroads of Buddhism and Science
17. Sona Dimidjian – Bringing Relationship into Research
18. Larry Barsalou – Habits of Mind
19. Buju Dasgupta – Social Context & Implicit Bias
20. Mingyur Rinpoche – Awareness, Compassion, and Wisdom  
21. Peter Wayne – Ecology of Mind
22. Dekila Chungyalpa – Human-Earth Connection
23. David Sloan Wilson – Conscious Evolution
24. Vandana Shiva – Earth Democracy
25. Jon Kabat-Zinn – The Heart of Mindfulness
26. Rhonda Magee – Mindfulness, Interconnection, and Justice
27. Nicholas Van Dam – Nuancing the Narrative
28. Willoughby Britton – When Meditation Causes Harm
29. Zenju Earthlyn Manuel – Identity as Path
30. Cortland Dahl – Integrating Science and Buddhism
31. Bobbi Patterson – Contemplation, Place, and Resilience
32. Cliff Saron – Embracing Complexity
33. Roshi Joan Halifax – Enactive Compassion
34. Jud Brewer – Changing Habits
35. Brooke Lavelle – Courage in Community
36. Al Kaszniak – The Universe of Verbs
37. Juan Santoyo – Practice and Peace
38. Jessica Morey – Healing Attachment
39. Lasana Harris – Flexible Social Cognition
40. Bob Thurman – Wisdom is Bliss
41. Sharon Salzberg – Love and Wisdom
42. Tish Jennings – Contemplative Education
43. Norm Farb – Meditation and the Brain
44. Yuria Celidwen – Indigenous Wisdom
45. Randima Fernando – Humane Technology
46. Zindel Segal – Mindfulness and Depression
47. Amy Cohen Varela – The Power of Undoing
48. Jamie Bristow – Policy, Practice, and Planet
49. Matthieu Ricard – Compassion and Care
50. Elissa Epel – Mind, Body, and Stress
51. Jenny Mascaro – Compassion in Healthcare
52. David Creswell – Exploring Equanimity
53. Ed Taylor – Leading by Example
54. Brendan Ozawa-de Silva – Embodied Learning
55. Fadel Zeidan – Mindfulness and Pain
56. sujatha baliga – Healing through Restorative Justice
57. Rob Roeser – Transforming Education
58. Emeran Mayer – Biological Interconnectedness
59. Marieke Van Vugt – Finding Balance
60. Paul Condon – Relational Meditation
61. Linda Carlson – Mindfulness and Cancer
62. Grant Jones – Music, Meditation, and Healing
63. Hanne De Jaegher – Making Sense Together
64. Robin Nusslock – How Stress Gets Under Our Skin
65. Daniel Goleman – Beyond Emotional Intelligence
66. Diana Chapman Walsh – Contemplative Leadership
67. Simon Goldberg – The Shape of Healing
68. Jyoti Mishra – Mindfulness and Climate Trauma
69. Brian Dias – Epigenetics and Intergenerational Trauma
70. Tawni Tidwell – Between Life and Death
71. Dave Vago – Meditation, Neuroscience, and Self
72. Eve Ekman – Building Emotion Awareness
73. Zev Schuman-Olivier – Mindfulness, Behavior Change, and Health
74. Quinn Conklin – Mind-Body Connection
75. Chuck Raison – Ancient Practices & Conscious Experience
76. Jim Coan – Our Social Baseline
77. Molly Crockett – Changing the World is a Group Project
78. Neil Theise – Everything is Connected
79. Otto Scharmer – Changing Systems
80. Melissa Rosenkranz – Mind, Body, World
81. Tania Singer – The Power of Two
82. Karen O’Brien – Why We Matter
83. Christy Wilson-Mendenhall – Emotions in the World