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...
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In The Mindfulness Solution to Pain, pain specialist and mindfulness based stress reduction (MBSR) teacher Jackie Gardner-Nix offers techniques proven to reduce chronic pain and suffering using mindfulness meditation exercises based on the pioneering work of Jon Kabat-Zinn.
Foreword Jon Kabat-Zin vAcknowledgments xiIntroduction 1Chapter 1 Getting started on managing your pain: understanding why you have it 16Chapter 2 Mindfulness: what is it? getting acquainted with your inner resources (1) 23Chapter 3 Meditation 101: getting acquainted with your inner resources (2) 31Chapter 4 Mindfulness: checking in on your progress 31Chapter 5 Meditation challenges 49Chapter 6 Searching the brain for clues to pain: turning on that flashlight 56Chapter 7 Reclaiming the parts that hurt: the body scan 77Chapter 8 Reclaiming caring for yourself: your physical needs 103Chapter 9 People stress 121Chapter 10 Art: see the pain-feel the gain 134Chapter 11 Visualizations and guided imagery 162Chapter 12 Reclaiming your life: with pain or without 174Appendix 190Recommended reading 195References 197Index 203
\ From the Publisher"Dr. Jackie's book provides a holistic approach to help people manage and cope with their daily pain. The Mindfulness Solution to Pain provides hope to anyone who is suffering and losing function as a result of constant pain.”\ —Sol Stern, MD, chairman of Palliative Care at Halton Healthcare Services in Oakville, ON, Canada\ \ \
