How to Meditate for Pain Control
Meditate for pain control! Yes it's true. It's proved from the results from a National Institutes of Health study that people who meditate have significant reduction in pain or we can say reduction in perception of pain. Indeed it's good news for people suffering from chronic pains.
Short Example of How to Meditate for Pain Control
Let us consider one example of how to meditate for pain control. Before meditation follow the following steps. Close your eyes and take 25-30 long deep breaths. This will help your body to relax and stabilize your breathing. Proper and stabilized breathing is a key point for your meditation. By the time you have completed 20 breaths you will feel relax and ready to meditate.
Now pick one area where you experience significant pain. Once you have done that give some sensible logic size and shape to the area. Check for its physical appearance, whether it's round, square, rectangular etc. and its 3-dimensional volume. Ask few questions to yourself regarding the area you have identified. For example whether it is uniform or has greater intensity within it? What are borders like sharp or diffused? Now check if the identified area has influence through the body or is it isolated? After you answer most of these questions you will be more clear and precise sense of the painful sensation. This completes the first step of how to meditate for pain control.
Now the next step of how to meditate for pain control is taking this isolated area and assigning it completely new identity. Consider it as a living being in its own right. Now the next set of questions you need to ask when this creature will move? Will its shape and borders move? Will it grow stronger or weaker? Will its center change? As you start answering these questions, you find pain change with every seconds passing by. The change might be very micro, but remember it is just the start. Every time when the pain changes relax your mind and body into it and remember to observe this without any judgments.