Episode 25: Waking Up

Episode 25: Waking Up Dr. Zev Nevo explores awareness and alertness as the key to “waking up” in the context of pain and healing, arguing that awareness is the most important thing because nothing has experiential value without it. He explains that pain requires alertness and can diminish with distraction, and that suffering reflects both sensation and our interpretation of threat, shaped by limbic sensitivity, past experiences, and cumulative stress/trauma. The nervous system’s survival resp...