Meditation and Chronic Pain

I have another digital web review on Meditation, but exclusively on dealing with Chronic Pain. As turbulent as it is to meditate with a stressful mind, it is much more difficult when there is physical pain. Both the mental and physical pain play off of each other and build. There is agreement with this in the book “The Mindfulness Solution to pain.” It states that “emotional stability contributes to a more manageable pain perception.” We cannot eliminate physical chronic pain, but our emotional state can make it worse.

Meditation can work to reduce the overall experience of pain, because “we function so much better when the body-mind dynamic feels better, and we are able to do more things.” As always don’t use these meditation instructions in place of professional medical care. Meditation is best when it is not the sole method used for your pain management.

The Mindfulness Solution to Pain: Jackie Gardner-Nix, Jon Kabat-Zinn: Kindle: https://amzn.to/2JhRGMO Paperback: https://amzn.to/36jJrsp

The Anapanasati Sutta (Mindfulness of Breathing) Step-by-step: https://youtu.be/RM69VCeECWA

Fabricating around pain – Thanissaro Bhikkhu: https://www.dhammatalks.org/Archive/y2017/170825_Fabricating_Around_Pain.mp3

Rob Burbea’s Energy Body talks

Energy Body: Instructions (1)
Gaia House: Path of the Imaginal (Longer Course)

http://dharmaseed.org/talks/audio_player/210/31525.html

Energy Body: Instructions (2)
Gaia House: Path of the Imaginal (Longer Course)

http://dharmaseed.org/talks/audio_player/210/31526.html

Energy, Image, Emotion (Part 1)
Gaia House: Path of the Imaginal (Longer Course)

http://dharmaseed.org/talks/audio_player/210/31527.html

Energy, Image, Emotion (Part 2)
Gaia House: Path of the Imaginal (Longer Course)

http://dharmaseed.org/talks/audio_player/210/31528.html

Guided Meditations: https://psychreviews.org/category/guidedmeditations/