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If you don’t already have a mindfulness practice, you might consider going back to this page and working through the ”Starter Kit for Establishing a Mindfulness Meditation Practice.” OR find some you like better on YouTube – there are thousands of them!


• If you already have a mindfulness practice, you may want to get a “refresher” by practicing mindfulness for 20 to 45 minutes every day for at least 6 days this week using these or other recordings. Feel free to mix it up a bit, using the Body Scan some days, one or two of the other guided meditations on other days, some lovingkindness meditations on other days...


• Set realistic goals (e.g. length of meditation sessions, frequency) that you are likely to be able to maintain in the long run. Too little practice – no significant improvement. Too much practice – burnout and frustration. Find a challenging “middle way.”


• Watch this video about the workings of mindfulness

• Watch and Reflect upon these Videos:

 

- How Mindfulness Can Help with Chronic Pain with Jon Kabat-Zinn


- A Different Approach to Pain Management: Mindfulness Meditation with Fadel Zeidan (TED talk)


- How mindfulness meditation redefines pain, happiness & satisfaction with Kasim Al-Mashat (TED talk)

 

 

Explore these articles:

 

- Meditation Reduces Emotional Pain by 44%


- The Connection between Mindfulness and Pain (and related articles) by The American Chronic Pain Association

- Easing Chronic Pain with Mindfulness


- Mindfulness Meditation Reduces Pain, Bypasses Opioid Receptors

 

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• Practice with these Guided Meditations for Reducing Pain

 

- Mindfulness Meditation for Pain Relief with Jon Kabat-Zinn


- Guided Meditation: Chronic Pain by The Mindful Movement

 

• Explore How your Diet can Impact Pain

 

Nutrition Facts.org

 

Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine

 

Foods that Fight Pain by Neal Barnard (book)

 

• Check out this material for Psychotherapists and other Medical Personnel

 

- Mindfulness Based Pain Treatment


- Mindfulness for Chronic Pain: Neuroscience Research and Emerging Healthcare Technologies

 

- Evidence base for Mindfulness based Interventions for Chronic Pain


• How’s Your Sleep? If it’s not so great, here’s some help:


The Sleep Solution by Chris Winter, MD


60-min audio Interview with Chris Winter, MD