Meditation For Pain: Meditation For Chronic Pain


Chronic pain is far different from acute pain. Chronic pain doesn’t always start because of an injury, though many do, it is exacerbated by external factors and persists long beyond when it should have healed.

Factors such as emotions, environment, and stress can all contribute to the pain’s tenacity and intensity.
This is where meditation comes in. It’s an effective pain management method and there’s no need to worry about side effects or addiction.

Over the last decade, there have been countless studies researching the relationship between meditation and how it affects people.

Researchers have looked at how meditation affects attention regulation, depression, body awareness, addiction, and PTSD. Additionally, scientists have studied how meditation can be used as a pain treatment.

While it won’t cure your chronic pain, what it will do is provide significant relief.

One study asked if and how meditation helps chronic pain (The Effects of Brief Mindfulness Meditation Training on Experimentally Induced Pain, Zeidan et al).

The study had just 15 participants and each underwent an MRI while pain was induced. Each participant was then taught mindfulness meditation and given another MRI.

One group meditated during the MRI and pain induction and the other group did not. The meditating group experienced a 40% reduction in the intensity of the pain.

In addition to this meditation is known to relieve stress, and stress can be a major factor in pain intensity. The bonus is that studies have indicated even beginning meditators see the benefits of the practice and you don’t need to be an experience Zen master to relieve your own pain using this method.

While the study mentioned above saw a pain reduction of 40% further studies have found it to be effective by 57% and for experienced meditators 90%.

Many pain clinics are prescribing meditation for chronic pain patients, as well as patients suffering from cancer, diabetes, and heart disease.

It has long been used for arthritis patients, as well as those with back problems, migraines, chronic fatigue syndrome, fibromyalgia, irritable bowel syndrome, multiple sclerosis, and celiac disease.

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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