Transforming Pain - by Amma Thanasanti

COURSE

Transforming Pain

With Amma Thanasanti

1. Embracing Pain and Resistance Discover the connections between pain and resistance across physical, emotional, and psychological realms. Understand the dual role of pain as both a warning signal and a catalyst for protective actions. 2. Pendulate between discomfort and comfort Gently oscillate attention between discomfort and comfort, expanding your capacity to be with pain. Guided meditation to foster relaxation, curiosity, and playful engagement with pain. 3. The Window of Tolerance Grasp the concept of the "Window of Tolerance" and its role in managing pain. Practical exercises to remain within this zone or find your way back to it amidst overwhelming experiences. 4. Transforming pain into compassion and wisdom Foster perspectives that transform pain into compassion and wisdom.

AwakeningPainWisdomTraditional BuddhismInsight MeditationSpiritualRecovery & HealingHealth & HappinessReligionMindfulness

Meet your Teacher

Amma Thanasanti
Piedmont, CA, USA

Amma Thanasanti has been meditating for over 40 years. She was a Buddhist Nun for 26 years including 20 years in the Ajahn Chah Forest Tradition. She has been teaching intensive meditation retreats internationally since 1996. Complex health issues resulted in chronic pain, lack of energy, and cognitive issues for over 30 years. Amma’s North Star is the truth where love, pervasive awareness, and the power of the land teach and support her every day. It is a source of great joy for her to watch others grow, find peace, and awaken to their potential as loving and free human beings.

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9 Days

225 students

4.1 stars

13 min / day

Awakening

English

Lesson 1

Introduction

This introduces the course and outlines the topics that will be covered including the role of pain, pain as a pathway to building skills, and developing compassion and understanding. This introduces the author's meditation and teaching experience as well as her experience with health issues and pain, inviting you to know a little more why this topic is of relevance.

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Lesson 2

Anchoring And Pendulating Attention

This is a guided meditation to help you ground, relax, and learn to pendulate your attention. Pendulating is a gentle movement of your attention between two different things. In this case, you are invited to pendulate between pleasant sensations and unpleasant sensations in a loving and gentle way.

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Lesson 3

Window Of Tolerance

This lesson describes the window of tolerance, some of the ways you function when you are inside your window of tolerance, and some symptoms you may experience if you are outside your window of tolerance. It describes several exercises and guides you in many more.

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Lesson 4

Being Curious With Body Pain

Take a mildly unpleasant sensation and become curious about it. How do you experience it? Does it have a shape, color, density, and emotion underneath it? When you bring curiosity to your painful experience, what happens?

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Lesson 5

Being Curious About Emotions

Starting with grounding and establishing your anchor, we turn your attention to being curious about emotional pain. When you explore emotions, do you notice where in the body they reside? Do they have a belief or thought connected to them?

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Lesson 6

Playing With Pain

This guided meditation is for mild pain that persists even when you change your posture. You are invited to begin imagining a safe place and then relax. Establish an anchor for your attention. Move to the edge of pain and notice the resistance you may have to the pain. The invitation is to soften around the resistance. You are invited into a playful way of being with pain by approaching it, withdrawing, moving across it, and then being with it directly.

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Lesson 7

Shifting Frames Of Reference

Pain can be something that you experience in your body as a sensation, you can focus on the unpleasant quality of it. Painful sensations can have a belief, emotion, or thought connected to it. If for example, the pain is intense physically, when you shift your frame of reference to notice the unpleasantness, rather than the sensations, you may have more capacity to be with it. What follows is a guided meditation to support you in shifting your frames of reference between something physical, the pleasant or unpleasantness, or the emotion connected to it.

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Lesson 8

Heart Qualities

We cultivate loving kindness, compassion, equanimity, open awareness, and forgiveness for ourselves and parts of our experience that are asking for them. This guided meditation cultivates loving-kindness, compassion, equanimity, and open awareness.

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Lesson 9

Transforming Pain Into Wisdom And Compassion

While it is natural not to want pain and illness, we can find they provide a lot of lessons in what it means to be human, the presumptions we take for granted, and ways to transform pain and illness into wisdom and compassion.

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4.1 (8)

Recent Reviews

Rob

February 14, 2024

Thank you so much!! 🙏🏽💜🌺

Jason

February 9, 2024

Soothing and subtly magical. Shifting my awareness from my anchor to my physical pain and back to my anchor made room for other parts of me to be nurtured. It was like any kind of harshness or resistance I had towards pain started to thaw and melt in the meditations. Grateful for this comforting voice accompaniment with wisdom amd grace.

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