Pain Archive

• Dr. Gabor Mate

Dr. Gabor Maté on Healthy Ways to Cope With Difficult Emotions Through Mindfulness

Learn how Dr. Gabor Maté suggests handling difficult emotions like anger, rage, grief, or panic using mindfulness exercises and practices.

A Safe Place to Deal with Pain

A Safe Place to Deal with Pain. Chronic pain can be very hard to handle, but many times when we create a mental image of suffering, we tend to aggravate…

Cultivating a Sense of Agency to Overcome Trauma

Cultivating a Sense of Agency to Overcome Trauma. This mindfulness exercise is designed to help you overcome the harmful effects of trauma.

Feeling Your Feet Throughout the Day

Feeling Your Feet Throughout the Day. A grounding practice that helps engage the parasympathetic nervous system, responsible for calming the mind & body.

Making Room for Pain or Discomfort

Making Room for Pain or Discomfort. You tense the body when struggling, trying to get rid of the unpleasantness. Instead, you can make room for the pain.

Notice and Accept Your Body in the Present Moment

Notice and Accept Your Body in the Present Moment. Be in your body fully and to get to know how it’s feeling right now with your attention and awareness.

Body Scan Meditation For Chronic Pain

Body Scan Meditation for Chronic Pain: Acknowledge how you are able to sense any sensations in your body in the moment and accept it.

Pain- Breathing and Deep Body Scan

A Meditation Script: Pain- Breathing and Deep Body Scan. Pain is just an experience we are aware of. Can you send this experience compassion?

11 Ways Mindfulness Can Help to Treat Chronic Pain

Chronic pain means pain which is prolonged, lasting longer than 3 to 6 months. There are many types of chronic pain, and many symptoms including the pain itself. Living with chronic pain can be a difficult, complex experience The mind and body are connected The mind and body are deeply connected, which means that our […]

Decentralizing Pain

A reflective worksheet for looking at pain, and the story you tell about it, from a different angle. It complements, and does not replace, care from a health professional.

Recovery Meditation: Spoken Word For Sickness Healing

A guided visualization with spoken word and music, intended to accompany rest during recovery from surgery, illness or pain. It complements, and does not replace, medical care.

Bringing Support and Peace to Pain

A free worksheet for a visualization in which you imagine a circle of supportive people around you while you stay with pain. It complements, and does not replace, medical care.

The Nest of Pain

A reflection worksheet on the protective nest we sometimes build around pain, with six questions about what it gives us, what it costs, and a small next step toward others.

How Do I Respond To Another’s Pain-Body?

According to Eckhart Tolle, dealing with somebody else’s pain-body sometimes requires removing yourself for a while to allow the episode to subside.

Investigating the Effect of Mindfulness Practice

An essay by Rebecca Brenner on the difference between understanding mindfulness and practicing it, with a four-step practice for returning your attention to the present moment.

Guided Meditation For Healing

This guided meditation is focused on healing that which is troubling your body or your mind today. May it be a physical injury, emotional heart ache, stress, anxiety or illness. Using the power of our mind and energy, this meditation will allow you to bring more healing and positive energy to attract and manifest healing […]

Mindful of the Body: A Guide

A free study guide prepared by Thanissaro Bhikkhu on mindfulness immersed in the body (MN 119) and the role of the body in meditation, according to the Pali Canon.