Meditation For Pain: How Meditation For Pain Works

The typical meditation will encourage focusing on various areas of your body. With each part of your body, you observe the pain as it arises and then let go of them.

It doesn’t take long for you to realize pain has two forms: primary and secondary. Each has a different cause and it is the understanding of this that provides you with the control over your pain.

Primary pain is the result of injury, damage, or illness to the body. It’s raw information that your body is sending to your brain.

Secondary pain is how your mind reacts to the primary pain, however, it is longer lasting and more intense. An amplifier in your brain is controlling the overall intensity of your pain and suffering.

Researchers have turned their focus on how that amplifier works and how it can be controlled. See, the mind doesn’t just feel the pain, it’s processing the information within the pain.

It will break down the different sensations in a big to find the pain’s underlying cause so that it can protect you from further injury.

The brain basically zooms in for a microscopic look to find a solution to the issue, but it’s this zooming that amplifies your pain.

Your mind is attempting to analyze the pain, which means it is sifting through your brain for every memory related to injury and suffering.

It’s on the hunt for clues and patterns that will lead it to the ultimate solution to prevent your pain.

The trouble with that, for chronic pain patients, is that there could be years of memories to hunt through. Thus, your mind has been flooded with unwanted memories and you are enmeshed in thoughts of suffering and pain.

You find yourself consumed with stress and anxiety, as well as your physical pain.

It happens in an instant before you have time to react, it’s a vicious cycle that only serves to amplify your pain. The stress and anxiety that this cycle creates only serves to exacerbate the pain, and hampers the immune system while it’s at it.

In fact, brain scans have indicated chronic pain sufferers have more tissue dedicated to feeling pain sensations. The volume knob of the brain is effectively stuck at maximum and then fallen off leaving you with no way to reduce it.

Mindfulness meditation hands you back control over the volume button and brain scans have confirmed this.

As you regain control over the volume, you will find depression, stress, and anxiety melting away which allows your body to relax and work on healing.

Something that every chronic pain sufferer will hear during their treatment is that they’ll need to learn how to live with the pain.

When you heard that phrase it probably enraged you. Perhaps because you hadn’t yet come to terms with the fact that the issue is incurable, or maybe because it wasn’t the first time you had heard that.

The Cultivation Of Awareness

You may have felt differently about that phrase had it been followed up with and this is how. Meditation is how you learn to live with pain.

This cultivation of awareness has proven to be highly effective at reducing pain. By calming your mind and focusing it you can control the degree of pain that you experience.

• Face It & Release It.

The majority of chronic pain sufferers instinctively want to run from their pain. However, mindfulness meditation encourages patients to face up to it.

By walking into the abyss, you can come to terms with your pain, learn how to address it, thus control it. Part of living with pain is facing up to it and the irritability, tension, and sweat that accompany it.

It isn’t about fixating on your pain or even judging it, it’s about processing it and learning how to manage it effectively.

• Divert Your Focus.

If you haven’t taken the time to focus on your pain then you cannot truly experience it.

For example, you find yourself focused on the pain and then someone swings a bat and hits you in the leg.

Suddenly you forget about the initial pain because your total focus is now on what has just happened to your leg.

Meditation is something like that, but a painless alternative. It helps you divert your focus away from the pain that you are experiencing.

You can learn much more here about using meditation and other alternative health remedies in my online guide https://www.discoveryhub.net/how-to-improve-pain-management.html



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