There is a certain amount of learning how to cope with Pain and Dealing with Symptoms
- There are many paths that one might take
One favorite in America is that if there is any kind of discomfort or pain, then do whatever is necessary to stop/get rid of it
- There is an enormous industry of over-the-counter drugs and prescription that tries to change our state so that we don’t have to deal with the symptoms
- This can be good but a lot of times this does not work
Very often the doctor will say you have to live with a certain amount of pain
- Meditation can be used to reduce pain
- review health and wellness meditations below
Resource: Reconnect
re-establish a bond of communication or emotion
You will not come and magically meditate away your disease, cancer, etc.
- Rather, we are going to work with things as they are
- We will realize that we don’t know the limits of the biology of the mind-body connection that is possible
We are not trying to be super meditators but instead to just try and connect on our own experience, bodies and minds.
- To learn how to go into deep state of relaxation but to also learn how to handle storms that come up in the mind or the body
- What are the things that don’t go away?
- How you deal with the question, “Well this meditation is not working for me for whatever reason.”
- In the world of meditation, we don’t talk this way
- This kind of work works best if we are not trying to make anything happen
- The same way we go to sleep best if you are not trying to force yourself
There is a specific lightness of touch required to experiencing the present moment
craving and resource from “Mindfulness Meditation in everyday life” by John Cabet Zinn