The Mindfulness Solution to Pain: Step-by-Step Techniques for Chronic Pain Management
Your mood, thoughts, and emotions can affect your perception of pain and even your ability to heal. In fact, your past life experiences influence your current physical challenges: "your biography influences your biology." While treatments like medication and physical therapy can be enormously beneficial to the body, to maximize pain relief, it's necessary to take advantage of the mind's healing abilities. This book offers a revolutionary new treatment approach, mindfulness-based chronic pain management, that helps you harness your mind's power to quiet your pain and put you in control. Mindfulness practice, which includes stationary meditations, movement meditations, mindful art, and other strategies, will help you: Understand how emotions & thoughts affect physical symptoms, Reverse the debilitating effects of some chronic pain conditions, Prevent pain from becoming chronic or long-term, Life the anxiety & depression that may accompany chronic pain.
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The Mindfulness Solution to Pain: Step-by-Step Techniques for Chronic Pain Management
Your mood, thoughts, and emotions can affect your perception of pain and even your ability to heal. In fact, your past life experiences influence your current physical challenges: "your biography influences your biology." While treatments like medication and physical therapy can be enormously beneficial to the body, to maximize pain relief, it's necessary to take advantage of the mind's healing abilities. This book offers a revolutionary new treatment approach, mindfulness-based chronic pain management, that helps you harness your mind's power to quiet your pain and put you in control. Mindfulness practice, which includes stationary meditations, movement meditations, mindful art, and other strategies, will help you: Understand how emotions & thoughts affect physical symptoms, Reverse the debilitating effects of some chronic pain conditions, Prevent pain from becoming chronic or long-term, Life the anxiety & depression that may accompany chronic pain.
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The Mindfulness Solution to Pain: Step-by-Step Techniques for Chronic Pain Management

The Mindfulness Solution to Pain: Step-by-Step Techniques for Chronic Pain Management

by Jackie Gardner-Nix
The Mindfulness Solution to Pain: Step-by-Step Techniques for Chronic Pain Management

The Mindfulness Solution to Pain: Step-by-Step Techniques for Chronic Pain Management

by Jackie Gardner-Nix

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Your mood, thoughts, and emotions can affect your perception of pain and even your ability to heal. In fact, your past life experiences influence your current physical challenges: "your biography influences your biology." While treatments like medication and physical therapy can be enormously beneficial to the body, to maximize pain relief, it's necessary to take advantage of the mind's healing abilities. This book offers a revolutionary new treatment approach, mindfulness-based chronic pain management, that helps you harness your mind's power to quiet your pain and put you in control. Mindfulness practice, which includes stationary meditations, movement meditations, mindful art, and other strategies, will help you: Understand how emotions & thoughts affect physical symptoms, Reverse the debilitating effects of some chronic pain conditions, Prevent pain from becoming chronic or long-term, Life the anxiety & depression that may accompany chronic pain.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781572248045
Publisher: New Harbinger Publications
Publication date: 07/01/2009
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 224
File size: 2 MB

Table of Contents

Foreword Jon Kabat-Zin v

Acknowledgments xi

Introduction 1

Chapter 1 Getting started on managing your pain: understanding why you have it 16

Chapter 2 Mindfulness: what is it? getting acquainted with your inner resources (1) 23

Chapter 3 Meditation 101: getting acquainted with your inner resources (2) 31

Chapter 4 Mindfulness: checking in on your progress 31

Chapter 5 Meditation challenges 49

Chapter 6 Searching the brain for clues to pain: turning on that flashlight 56

Chapter 7 Reclaiming the parts that hurt: the body scan 77

Chapter 8 Reclaiming caring for yourself: your physical needs 103

Chapter 9 People stress 121

Chapter 10 Art: see the pain-feel the gain 134

Chapter 11 Visualizations and guided imagery 162

Chapter 12 Reclaiming your life: with pain or without 174

Appendix 190

Recommended reading 195

References 197

Index 203

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