Mindfulness Meditation for Pain Relief

Guided Practices for Reclaiming Your Body and Your Life

By: Jon Kabat-Zinn

Narrated by: Jon Kabat-Zinn

Length: 1 hr and 55 mins

Publisher's summary

If you're reading this, chances are your life, or the life of someone you know, is shaped by pain - and the physical and emotional suffering that usually accompany it. The good news: Jon Kabat-Zinn and his colleagues have helped thousands of people learn to use the power of mindfulness to transform their relationship to pain and suffering, and discover new degrees of freedom for living with greater ease and quality of life.

Now, with Mindfulness Meditation for Pain Relief, the man who brought mindfulness into mainstream medicine presents these approaches for working gently and effectively with even the most trying of circumstances.

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Watch your mind

It seems that whenever my mind starts to wander while trying to do the practices he’s describing, I lose focus almost exactly when he says to watch your thoughts, emotions, and feelings drift by. I never thought to approach my pain non-judgmentally or expecting a certain outcome.

Awesome!!

Awesome, magnificent , take the reality of pain to a whole new level and completely soul satisfying!

Love anything by Jon Kabat-Zinn

This book gives an introduction to mindfulness practice and some mindfulness exercises including the body scan.

Not just for pain relief

I found the book on my own. A fantastic reminder of embracing yourself and life- each and every moment.

Healing and Warm with a Beautiful Voice

I live with chronic HeadPain known as
Occipital neuralgia… This is not a headache, this is pain that lives on the left side of my head and feels like a raw boil living under the scalp...
I have lived with this condition since 2012, and I've had surgery that was intended to help, and it did but at avery low percentage of improvement, which I am very grateful for.
Jon-Kabat-Zinn calms me with his voice,
which gave me the assurance that I could go ahead and try to listen to him through the pain… I will listen to him over and over again because I trust what he says and I felt better and I felt his sincerity. He doesn't demand anything from you, he just leads me gently, and again, his voice is so soothing and authentic & calming and I am blessed to have found him and his book on Audible… It was not recommended I just found it because I needed it. I hope you find it as soothing and as tender and healing as I have experienced with Jon's Meditation for Pain Relief.. Thank you for your time.

Wonderful!

I am so glad this was recommended to me. I can't say enough good things about it. The gentleness and love that comes from Jon is palpable. I highly recommend this to anyone living with chronic illness, pain and anxiety.

Great tool to help with chronic pain.

His voice is very soothing!
I’m sure this will help my chronic pain.
I would recommend.

This actually helped

I'm in pain all the time. There's little to be done about it. This practice has given me a tool to deal with it. You don't realize all the stresses you associate w pain until something like this helps you sort it out.

Anyone Living With Chronic Pain

Would you listen to Meditation for Pain Relief again? Why?

Yes, I listen to this often. I would reccomend this meditation to anyone with chronic pain due to arthritis, back injuries, surgeries or any pain issues. Why? Because it helps me.

What other book might you compare Meditation for Pain Relief to and why?

Almost any other meditation or relaxation books are good. You may find them to be somewhat pricy for the length of the book but when you factor in the benefits they are very much worth the money. If this isn't in your budget there are plenty of free sources out there if you look but this is convenient.

Which scene was your favorite?

There isn't really a scene with meditation but the meditation is very relaxing and does actually alleviate pain.

What insight do you think you’ll apply from Meditation for Pain Relief?

The insight that I appy to this book is that there are multiple relaxation methods out there and it allows me to focus on my pain so that I can take my focus off my pain. It is very interesting how this meditation works.

Any additional comments?

I wish that audible had an automatic repeat option button on the manager because I listen to this when I lay down at night and I sometimes wake up after the meditation and have to get up from a pain free relaxed position and replay or play another meditation or book. Also, it would be great if there were a longer book such as a compilation of meditations lasting overall around 6,7, or 8 hours. This would be more convenient and more affordable.

Supplemental practices for people in pain

I have been doing mindfulness meditation for almost forty years. This book is an excellent supplement for people with pain, however, I would not recommend it for beginners. Better to start with "Mindfulness for Beginners." I wish the audio tape had divided into separate chapters the explanatory sections. So that the listener could select a guided meditation without having to re-listen to the explanation and coaching after the first read.