Eric Garland

Eric Garland, a UCSD professor who created Mindfulness-Oriented Recovery Enhancement (MORE), explains practical mindfulness tools. He covers how MORE targets chronic pain and everyday addictive habits. Short practices like STOP, mindful zooming, savoring, and cognitive reappraisal get attention. The conversation highlights de-automatization, self-transcendent states, and clinical evidence for these methods.

Dr. Sanjay Gupta chats with Eric Garland, a researcher and clinical therapist from UC San Diego, about innovative ways to tackle chronic pain. They discuss how mindfulness meditation can rival opioids without the nasty side effects. By leaning into pain instead of avoiding it, individuals can rewire their brains for lasting relief. The conversation highlights the emotional burdens of chronic pain, the significance of shifting focus to healthy body areas, and practical mindfulness techniques that can transform pain perception and daily living.

Eric Garland, clinical researcher and psychotherapist, discusses using mindfulness for addiction and chronic pain. Topics include early mystical experiences, meditation's healing power, self-transcendence, Mindfulness-Oriented Recovery Enhancement for addiction and chronic pain, reappraisal, savoring natural rewards, deconstructing pain, clinical trial results, and lessons learned.