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Brief Training In Meditation May Help In Pain Management
January 4th, 2010 | 
Author: Living with pain is stressful, but a surprisingly short investment of time in mental training can help you cope.
A new study examining the perception of pain and the effects of various mental training techniques has found that relatively short and simple mindfulness meditation training can have a significant positive effect on pain management. Though pain research during the past decade has shown that extensive meditation training can have a positive effect in reducing a person’s awareness and sensitivity to pain, the effort, time commitment, and financial obligations required has made the treatment not practical for many patients. Now, a new study by researchers at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte shows that a single hour of training spread out over a three day period can produce the same kind of analgesic effect. Read more…
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Finding Peace Through Meditation
No one would argue that the world is noisier today than it has ever been, in some cities and countries reaching almost intolerable decibels. Around the world wars have increased, and the eruption of guns firing and bombs exploding fill the air. The intense and angry shouts of opposing political and religious fanatics dissolve into unintelligible babel. Faster, noisier, and more “extreme” seems to envelope the market. Not only our ears are being assaulted, but our eyes as well. Billboards, once merely unpleasant, now electronically light up the night with promotions. Intrusive advertisements sail across our computer monitors like phantoms, and then stop, blocking our ability to read more important words underneath them. Too often, what is seen, is obscene. Acts of violence and disastrous events that have caused pain and suffering are played over and over again, in full color, on the news. Where can peace be found in these times? And, is it possible to get there from here? Peace can be found within each of us, at the still, quiet core of our being. And the way to get there is through meditation.
By closing our eyes we turn away from the world, and by turn within, we find what seemed unreachable and elusive, but was there all the time…peace. Through the slowing of our breathing, we give our body the experience of refuse…and we find peace. Through the slowing of the excessive activity of our thoughts, until they gently drift, like falling leaves, and settle into stillness…we find peace.
This type of meditation revitalizes every cell, fiber, and tissue of our being. Therefore, it can be healing. The jabber of our mind momentarily stops with the type of meditation. In this way, this type of meditation can be revealing.
The constrictions of body and mind vanish when we meditate in this way, and many times they do not return when we open our eyes and look at the world again. The peace that we have embodied within transforms into the peace of our actions in the world.
Now, perhaps more than ever before, we, the people, need to meditate — to heal ourselves and, in that way, to heal the world.
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