Meditations For Managing Chronic Pain

Von Catherine Justice

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This meditation series brings a mindfulness and self-compassion lens towards the experience of managing chronic pain. Learning how to tune into the body can be incredibly challenging when we experience chronic pain. So often when we experience pain, we tune the sensations out as a means of escaping unpleasant sensations. And in the short-run, this could be a great strategy. But in the long-run, if we tune out painful sensations, we start to tune-out opportunities to actually release painful sensations from our bodies. Or conversely, sometimes we get consumed by feelings of pain - unable to experience other sensations from the overwhelm of the painful sensations. This can also backfire, causing our body to "hardwire" the experience of pain into our brain circuitry. This Meditations for Managing Chronic Pain series will give you some basic tools to help befriend your body and utilize evidence-based mindfulness skills to reduce stress and improve our ability to manage and possibly even reduce the complex experience of pain. Utilizing trauma-informed principles, these recordings are designed to be adaptable, offering choice and empowerment to help you find comfort on your own unique healing journey.

Catherine Justice

Minneapolis, MN, USA

Catherine Justice is an integrative physical therapist, a certified yoga therapist, a yoga researcher, an artist, and a meditation instructor. She received her Doctor of Physical Therapy degree from the University of Minnesota in 2010 and graduated with honors from the Academy of Integrative Health and Medicine’s two-year Integrative Medicine...

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Listening To Sensations - A Mindfulness Approach To Managing Pain

Thank you so much for joining me on this journey to explore how meditation can help you manage and possibly reduce your suffering from the experience of chronic pain. The first meditation in this series offers a trauma-informed way of listening to the body’s sensations, with soothing cues to help release physical tension in the body. As tension is released, the physical relaxation that ensues often decreases the severity of pain, or at the very least makes it feel more manageable. My hope is that all the meditations in this series will give you some peace, compassion, and power over the sensations of pain - allowing you to reclaim a life with more ease, joy, and empowerment.

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Mindful Breathing Meditation For Pain

The experience of pain, particularly chronic pain is something that can pull us out of our body and get in the way of our moment to moment connection to and enjoyment of our lives. In this meditation, we’ll explore how to use our breath to reconnect to sensations within our body, next we’ll use the breath to allow for softening of any physical tension and discomfort within those sensations, and lastly we’ll explore how the breath can help us zoom out of the sensations - as if you were observing it from outside yourself. This process can be incredibly helpful in offering comfort and solace for our physical, mental, emotional, and deep spiritual well-being.

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Yoga Nidra For Chronic Pain

This is a meditation around the practice of yoga nidra - or finding a state of deep rest while remaining awake, finding a deep connection to your inner world. In this meditation we will experience the felt sense of non-duality, noticing sensation in areas of the body where pain is present, and also areas where pain is NOT present. Noticing any emotions present, while also noticing the opposite emotions. These practices free us from the trap of being consumed by the experience of chronic pain, freeing ourselves to make space for the full spectrum of life’s experiences. Yoga Nidra is a wonderfully relaxing and empowering meditation experience. I would like to thank the training I received from the iRest Institute for inspiring this meditation.

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Self-Compassion Meditation For Chronic Pain

The experience of pain, especially chronic pain can leave us feeling disconnected or frustrated with ourselves. Taking the time to cultivate compassion for our struggles, our efforts, and the experience of the suffering that can occur alongside chronic pain can be an integral part of the healing process. This meditation will guide you through an exploration of self-compassion, bringing heartfelt comfort to your experiences.

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