How meditation relieves the subjective experience of pain

Meditation can relieve pain, and it does so by activating multiple brain areas, according to an April study in the Journal of Neuroscience. Fadel Zeidan of Wake Forest University and his colleagues scanned people’s brains as they received uncomfortably hot touches to the leg. When subjects practiced a mindful meditation technique that encourages detachment from experience while focusing on breathing, they reported less pain than when they simply paid attention to their breathing.

Top Ten Stress Relievers

Top Ten Stress Relievers

1. Exercise

2. Take a walk

3. Take a fun class

4. Take a few minutes and do a visualization of restful or peaceful

    place/thought

5. Take a yoga class

6. Practice deep breathing techniques

7. Participate in a fun activity with partner or friend

8. Cognitive reframing…..  look at it from a different perspective.

9. Read a book

10. Get away from the moment. Try to predict stressful situations and prepare for them.