meditation to deal with pain?

Question

Does anyone use meditation to deal with chronic pain? What exactly do you do? I have done a little meditation before, but not much. Are there specific exercises you use, and if so, what are they? How frequently and for how long do you meditate, or how frequently is it reccomended? Any suggestions would be appreciated.

Answer 1

I have an 8 cd Program that deals with Chronic Pain through meditation.

The way it works is you meditate daily for the duration of the cd (15 minutes)

It is the voice of a Doctor giving you positive affirmations and speaking to your subconscious. It worked very well for me. It was hard to get used to but I think most of it has to do with mind over matter.

GL!

'-)

Answer 2

Yes, I use Tai Chi and Japanese White Light mediation. Every day I use it twice a day. I suffer from a Neuromuscular Disease Called, RSD(Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy) Most of the time it is referred to as by: Complex chronic Pain Syndrome. Most of the time, it is missed diagnosed. As thought of sometimes as Chronic Fatique syndrome. I went 18 months without proper diagnosis and treatment after sustaining an injury at work. I was shocked by over 450 volts of electricity. Find yourself a good neurologist and have cat scans, MRI's, PET Scans and a bone scan done to rule everything else out and to prove you may have the same thing I do. Unfortunately, it is not curable as with almost all other dystrophy's. If it is RSD, I wish you all the luck in the world.

Answer 3

A good meditative technique to deal with pain or with harsh conditions is to contemplate being small.

Smallness means so small you are a point, a singularity which is touched by nothing.

Check around town for yoga classes. This can help in two ways. It might teach you physical techniques to lessen the pain, and it will teach you meditative techniques.

Answer 4

I have been dealing with chronic pain for about as long as you have been alive.

One starting comment, "Placebo effect:" In analgesia, success means that the pain is not felt or perceived by the patient. You will see some physicians argue that a certain technique is strictly placebo. It doesn't make any difference. What a patient THINKS stops the pain DOES stop it.

I had a friend several years ago that was a hypnotherapist. He produced a series of audio recordings to aid people in using "self hypnosis" to help them deal with a variety of issues. That may be something to consider as an adjunct or alternative... It is a similar technique.

Answer 5

I took a Silva mind control course when I was 17 and I am 52. to learn to separate myself from the horrible pain I have.Its works /somewhat.

meditation is very good to do also. I chant most every night the spiritual word HU. HUUUUUUUUUUUUUU
you must not have any thoughts in your mind.

May you find peace .and have a separation from your pain.
I Will pray for you tonight, prayer works if done with faith and visualization.

Answer 6

find a comfortable place and feel the pain and don't block it out while watching bodily responses breath, heart, movement. Work on mindfulness. there are books its not easy to gain ful awareness from but it may help in certain situations.

Answer 7

I believe Yoga and Meditation have great therapeutic value.

Please check out the tutorials here :

http://www.himalayaninstitute.org/resourcecenter/tutorials/freetutorials.aspx
http://www.allspiritual.com/Meditation.php3
http://www.oshoworld.com/meditation/meditations.asp
http://taichi.snowseed.com/dr_shi.htm
http://www.docnmail.com/learnmore/meditation.htm
http://www.chicagoyoga.org/

All the best.

Cheers.

Simon Templar

Answer 8

I use pills, they work much better then meditation

Answer 9

probably just involves ignoring the pain

Answer 10

Laughter is supposed to help, I don't know if that is true though.