Meditation and Pain

Meditation can relieve pain, by activating multiple brain areas, according to an April 2011 study in the Journal of Neuroscience. Fadel Zeidan of Wake Forest University and his colleagues scanned people’s brains as they received uncomfortably hot touches to the leg. When subjects practiced a mindful meditation technique that encourages detachment from experience while focusing on breathing, they reported less pain than when they simply paid attention to their breathing.

Read more on Meditation and Pain, from Richard Brunner’s blog Therapy and Wellbeing.

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