Pain Relief Meditation

Pain is the body’s way of signaling that something is wrong. Even if a medical cause has been discovered and appropriate treatment rendered, pain can still go on. It's also well-known that many pain medications have unwanted side effects or can cause addiction. Because pain is generally worsened by the body tensing up, relaxation and meditation strategies can often help to considerably reduce the intense feeling of pain. This exercise addresses exactly that. It can lessen the subjective experience of pain. Try this mental journey inward and see if it helps you to feel better.

Transcript

Pain.

Nobody likes pain.

Everyone wants to avoid pain.

Sometimes pain is unavoidable as an experience in this life.

But it also has a subjective quality.

When we experience pain,

We tend to tense up.

And then we magnify and concentrate on the pain and it gets worse.

Today,

We're going to work with the pain.

We're going to work to help change your perception of how this feels.

And we're going to begin now.

So get yourself as comfortably arranged as you possibly can.

On a couch,

A chair,

Wherever it is you find yourself.

Maybe in a bed.

It's time to relax as much as you can.

So try to take a soft deep breath in through your nose and exhale through your mouth.

Another soft deep breath in through your nose and exhale through your mouth.

Pay attention to your breathing.

And then relax your breathing as much as you can.

Breathing in,

Breathing out.

Breathing in.

Breathing out.

Close your eyes.

And begin to relax as much as you can.

Think about your eyes,

Eyelids,

Eye muscles.

Relax your eyelids and eye muscles now.

Make your eyelids comfortably,

Pleasantly closed and relaxed.

Now allow those feelings of relaxation in your eyelids and eye muscles to multiply and to magnify,

To become greater.

Expanding across your cheeks,

Your cheekbones,

Your cheek muscles,

Your jaw.

Think about your jaw.

Relax your jaw.

That's a place where tension and stress often gather.

So be sure to relax your jaw.

That's right.

And then allow that relaxation to penetrate deep into the floor of your mouth.

You might want to allow your lips to part a little bit as you breathe in more relaxation.

And then as you exhale tension from today.

And your forehead now relax.

Your forehead.

Every muscle,

Every cell of your forehead.

And then think about the area from your forehead up over top of your head down to the nape of your neck and just relax your scalp muscles.

Let them be.

Could be you notice a little tingling in your scalp as you relax your scalp and then your neck muscles.

Think about the large and small muscles in your neck and relax those muscles as much as you can.

And then your shoulders.

The large and small muscles.

Relax your shoulders now.

Let them go.

Allow that relaxation to begin to flow now from your shoulders down both of your arms.

Across your upper arms to your elbows now.

Your elbows down to your wrists now.

Across the backs of your hands.

Your palms of your hands now.

All the way up to your fingertips.

It could be you notice a little tingling in your hands and your palms and that's fine.

Relax now those arms from your fingertips all the way up to your shoulders making those arms of yours heavy.

Rested.

Relaxed like the arms of a limp ragdoll.

So heavy.

So relaxed.

So relaxed.

Relax your arms.

Make them heavy.

Limp.

Loose.

Lazy.

Heavy.

Heavier now.

And as you breathe in now imagine that relaxation moving across your chest down through your abdomen.

As much as you're able allow a bit of a feeling of comfort in your abdomen.

And picture something soothing,

Something restful perhaps like a black dark robe of soft flowing velvet slowly curling down around your shoulders.

Holding you secure and as that robe passes down your back,

Down your spine.

Relaxing each and every muscle cell and nerve and fiber as it goes and flows through the whole center of your body.

Coating each and every organ with peace and love and healing.

Sending those feelings of relaxation now.

As much as you're able down over your hips and into your thighs.

Relax both thighs.

Imagine those thighs being like sponges.

Sponges absorbing liquid now.

Absorbing liquid becoming heavier and heavier with relaxation down to your knees.

All the way down to your lower legs.

Now to your ankles.

Down to your feet.

All the way down to your toes.

So that your whole body is rested.

Heavy.

Limp.

Now relaxing.

More and more.

Now it's time for you to double your relaxation.

From the top of your head to the tips of your fingers and toes.

Send a wave of relaxation all the way from the top of your head down to your feet and down to your toes.

Yes now.

With each and every breath that you take in allow yourself to relax even more deeply and comfortably.

As you continue to focus on the sound of my voice now.

Every breath you take.

Only you know what relaxation feels like.

Only you can create it.

Only you can remember what comfort feels like.

So let your body and every cell in your body now remember what it feels like to be comfortable.

As you change your thinking in this way you begin to rewire your brain to send out different chemicals to make changes in the body's responses.

It's like the way of thinking about eating a lemon can make your jaw hurt.

Or cause a change in the salivation.

Imagine to yourself I'm relaxed now I'm comfortable.

I'm in control.

What does relaxation,

Comfort and control look like?

Hold that image in your mind as I speak.

With every breath you take.

Now.

Allow yourself to take control of comfort.

I wondered if you could decide to create a coolness or a warmth.

Or a soothing color in your body.

If you could see this discomfort is almost a kind of a benefit.

You'll probably determine what you can create.

According to which gives you the larger benefit.

And as I speak and you create within your mind different thoughts and different images of how you want to feel.

I need for you to know.

That your thoughts through your thoughts you're actually in control of your mind and body.

Therefore the more you focus your thoughts on my voice the more you'll have control over how comfortable you choose to be.

I wonder if you might be able to be reminded of a time in your past.

When you were aware of how comfortable your body could be.

Maybe even now you're beginning to notice heaviness.

Or it could be lightness in your body.

And I wonder how you feel coolness or warmness and calmness.

You know your own body better than anyone.

I'm wondering if you might already begin to be noticing that your body is even a little more relaxed.

Now.

Which way is more relaxed?

Your left side or your right side?

Your left side over there your right side over here.

That area which in the past was uncomfortable.

Is it close to you now or is it far away?

Think about looking through binoculars.

I wonder if you notice when you think of that place of discomfort that it's like looking through binoculars.

It could be that it gets so big now bigger closer almost as it's right up close or yet.

You might think that you could turn those binoculars around and how far far far away.

Could be that feeling.

Maybe even remember how it was when you were a child.

Now imagine that area of discomfort shrinking shrinking becoming tinier tinier tinier when you look at it in a different way.

When you look at a different way you're looking at it in a different way.

And now I'd like for you to imagine.

Your feet now.

Your feet are like back ends.

And they begin to suck up into your body starting at the ankles and the lower part of your legs and your knees and your thighs.

Every cell now filling with a cool orange colored magnetic liquid moving into your hips.

Your pelvic area into your abdomen.

All the organs now all the cells of your abdomen and now it flows into your lungs and into your chest.

Imagine yourself breathing with your lungs filled with a cool orange colored magnetic liquid.

Now could be some areas of your body would be more pleasing if they were warm or maybe if they were cool.

Now if there's a coolness in that area it's okay to make them warm.

That's right and you're doing well now.

Every breath allowing you to drift gently and peacefully into this wonderful state of peace.

As that chest continues to feel that warm or cool orange colored liquid magnetic liquid it begins to flow over to your arms.

Your fingertips all the way up to your shoulders now every cell every vessel every part of your body now from your neck down fills with warm or cool orange colored liquid magnetic liquid.

Now this cool orange colored magnetic liquid filling your head your ears your eyes your sinuses your brain.

And now it could be warmth or coolness this orange colored magnetic liquid now already creating comfort and calmness.

And now why wouldn't it be okay to allow that magnetic orange liquid pull from every cell anxiety tension comfort.

You're worthy now of allowing that comfort.

It comes from allowing this amazing orange colored magnetic liquid cool soothing liquid to pull from every cell of your body anxiety tension discomfort.

You do have a right to be more comfortable.

So now allow every cell in your body to remember what normal feels like.

Yes.

Focus now on happy memory a comfortable memory of what normal feels like.

Maybe remember what it felt like in just one area of your body.

Remember what normal comfortable happy feels like.

And now imprint that memory on every cell of your body.

Every cell of your body and as you do so that cooler warm orange colored magnetic liquid will continue to pull from every cell anxiety tension and discomfort.

So that you can replace uncomfortable memories with memories of comfort.

Serenity peace tranquility in every cell.

Do that now.

I'll be silent.

As you go deeper.

And sink deeper.

And to relaxation.

Allowing every cell to be imprinted with the memory.

Of what normal feels like.

You're doing so well creating comfortable calm peaceful.

Feeling.

And now.

Every cell of your body knows what normally.

How wonderful.

It feels to remember what comfort.

Normal.

Is.

And you have that right.

It's okay to let go of.

Painful.

Negative and milk emotions like guilt.

Shame.

Doubt.

Let it go.

Allow yourself to have forgiveness for yourself and for others.

It doesn't mean you condone what was done.

But it breaks the chain.

That lets others control you.

And most of all it takes the pain out of the memory.

Yes and now go back into that deep relaxation.

And you may be surprised at what happens now.

As you visualize the color fading away getting lighter and lighter.

But that color.

Shift to white clear.

It's soon time.

For you to emerge to a higher level.

Of the wakeful state.

But every time you see or sense or perceive.

Orange or the color orange it brings back those feelings of peacefulness.

Calmness relaxation imprinting on the cells.

Of what normal.

Feels like.

And allowing yourself to feel so calm so peaceful now deep.

In every cell of your body.

What normal is.

Yes and now feeling a greater sense of light.

A greater sense of peacefulness.

A greater sense of health and well-being.

A greater sense of peacefulness and relaxation.

Even though you're alert and awake.

You can allow yourself to shift back up.

To a more awakened state of being more peaceful more relaxed though.

Always remembering.

Firmly anchored that memory of what normal is.

Coming back soon now as I count you back to five.

Allow yourself to take a moment to get ready.

With the number one.

And then.

With the number two I'd like you to see yourself.

Like it says if you're swimming up through a pink waterfall of healing light and love.

All parts of you and your soul now cleansed and healed.

Coming back.

As you should be and three seeing yourself actually surrounded by a protective.

Field of white light.

Floating in that bubble of protection.

For.

Soon allowing yourself to emerge.

Hands and feet more normalizing.

That's it.

And when you're ready now.

Coming back to waking consciousness.

Feeling relieved.

Lighter.

A shift.

To the way things.

Are normal.

The way they should be.

Reviews

Thank you so mich! My body feels a lot better. Will repeat to rewire the brain. Hopeful to feel relaxed and normal in my body again soon 🙏🏻

Thank you. I found this track help to relieve the pain in my back.

I’ve been dealing with some chronic pain and this meditation is really helpful. Thank you for sharing your gift of healing.

Actually listen to it in the shower. Will definately be listening again.

Very helpful! I was able to fall asleep. Thank you!

Really relaxing and peaceful. Thank you for helping reduce my pain today.

Thank you for this relaxing and beautiful meditation🙏 Your voice is calming & it helps.

One of the most amazing pain management meditation on the app, this is my go to anytime needed.

This is incredibly helpful! I suffer with a lot of physical pain and it really helps to lessen it and sometimes make it stop. Thank you!! 💕

So relaxing and I could feel a shift in the pain I was feeling. Thank you

Wonderful
Deeply relaxing and quite mesmerising
I really felt my body getting heavy and relaxed
Will use regularly 😊

Wow, just wow! The diction, the almost scat-jazz, poetry-salm phraseology. Meditation like a transecdant Coltrane solo. I tried this for the first time the other night in the backyard out here in the desert, and found myself asleep (not necessarily my design in a meditation about pain — though not necessarily not). Or is it about pain at all? In either event, bravo. I’ve been in Insight Timer for, what, six years? And this is an immediate Top Ten for me! I plan to delve deeper into your catalog. (Didn’t quite relate to the “magnetic orange liquid,” however.)

Loved the journey into myself to find my normal and spread it throughout my body

This is one of my favorite pain relief meditations.

May You Be Happy
Be Healthy
Be Free of Pain & Suffering
May You Be Loved by All
Namaste 🙏🏼

Great, so needed to get a mental reset from chronic back and hip pain that impacts simple functions in life, thank you

This really worked to lighten my pain! Thank you

I experienced relief from physical and emtional discomfort. Thank you. 💚

Really helped I hurt my back and the pain is less after this so good job 💪

Just incredible. It really worked and I stopped feeling so much physical pain. Your voice and techniques are astounding, so thank you.