Four years ago I suffered a lot of pain from terrible headaches. I tried everything to cure them, and eventually they faded away. One of the things that I tried came out of a meditation group where I sit and listen.



In one meeting we broke up into small discussion groups and I happened to mention my headaches. One of the other people in this group mentioned that for years she had had terrible migraine headaches and that she was able to control them by working with meditations that Shinzen Young taught in his book and CD "Break Through Pain." I immediate bought it, put some of those techniques to work, and benefited from it, while at the same time deepening my meditation practice.





Shinzen taught me that we don’t have to suffer from pain. Suffering, he explains in a synopsis of his teaching how we can break through pain, is a function of pain and the degree to which the pain is being resisted.

מדיטציה יכולה לסייע   - כך טוען מנדוזה.

4 שנים סבל מכאבי ראש עד שגילה את המדיטציה.

We found a big effect -- about a 40 percent reduction in pain intensity and a 57 percent reduction in pain unpleasantness, Dr. Zeidan continued. “Meditation produced a greater reduction in pain than even morphine or other pain-relieving drugs, which typically reduce pain ratings by about 25 percent.”



You have probably taken pain relievers. As Dr. Zeidan says, they will help some. But like all drugs, they have side effects. The only side effect of using meditation for pain relief that I know of is greater happiness.

עדיף על כדורים מזיקים, שווה לנסות

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http://www.jneurosci.org/content/31/14/5540.full?sid=1dd6fd9c-c1dd-4476-be34-b162b08c768b