Study: Mindfulness Meditation Provides Opioid-Free Pain Relief

[kentauros]

9. This research is promising for what they can find out.

There's no telling what it could lead to, if it does lead to anything. Or, they could simply learn that the best non-opioid method of controlling pain is meditation

I'm not familiar with jyoti meditation. Upon looking it up online, I'm unsure as to which sites offer what I need to know to learn more about it (400,000 hits!) It sounds interesting, so I would like to learn more about it.

I'll have a look for that Sam Harris book. I will admit that I've never cared for his opinions on belief, yet I will still have a look at his meditation book.

As for Jon Kabat-Zinn, I've had a mindfulness meditation introductory CD set for several years now. I just ripped it to a format for my portable player (flac) so maybe now I'll finally use it

What little I've learned of mindfulness is what you've just mentioned. That it's impossible to stop thinking; the mind just has too many thoughts going on all the time. (davidji mentions something like 30,000-40,000 thoughts per day!) He teaches the same thing, to gently bring yourself back to the center, and to not scold yourself for having thoughts.

Your second point makes so much sense! I can't add anything to that, and will simply remember it when it happens.

I'll have to work with those recordings some more and see what happens, especially with other pains going on. And to play with those recordings that are just for meditating mindfully. Plus, I'll probably mix them with that sound/noise site I posted here as they need a little something in the background. The newest one, Bells Breath, would work especially well for me. I'll just post back to this thread on my experiences.