Core Emotions and Chronic Pain

Core Emotions and Chronic Pain

Core Emotions and Chronic Pain Understanding your core emotions helps manage chronic pain Chronic pain is impacted, both positively and negatively, by many factors. Some of these factors, we have no control over, and other factors we can manage. One of the things we...
Body Scan Meditation for Chronic Pain

Body Scan Meditation for Chronic Pain

Body Scan Meditation for Chronic Pain Chronic Pain Can Be Managed with Meditation that Brings a Kind Awareness to the Body. Body scan meditation can be very helpful in managing chronic pain.  Often with chronic pain you may try your best to ignore the physical...
What role does trauma play in chronic pain?

What role does trauma play in chronic pain?

What role does trauma play in chronic pain? What role does trauma play in chronic pain? Chronic pain is so complex.  Understanding the role trauma plays in chronic pain may add a little clarity.  Individual trauma can be defined as “an event, series of events, or set...
What is compassion and what is not?

What is compassion and what is not?

What is compassion and what is not? What does it mean to be compassion-ish? What does it mean to be compassion-ish and how is that different from true compassion? I’ve been practicing and teaching Meditation and providing Compassion training for many years, and I’d...
Vacation Pain

Vacation Pain

Vacation Pain I had an amazing experience the other night that reminded me that pain is definitely biopsychosocial: that my biology, my mind, and my relationship to those around me has a huge effect on my perception of pain.   I was on vacation with my family and was...