A Pain Reduction Practice

This meditation is especially helpful if you are struggling with intense pain, either physical or emotional. This technique is often taught by American Zen Master, Shinzen Young. Instead of just focusing on the breath, we're going to do so in a very special way. On the outbreath for example, notice how your body naturally relaxes. It takes no effort to breath out. It is more like an easy letting go.

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I liked the different ways to look at both positive parts of breathing in and out.

amazing. My physical pain drastically lessened with this one meditation. Thank you

Excellent! I sought this out for managing pain. It was so helpful it will make it into my regular rotation even without the presence of pain.

Did this helpful meditation while taking a bath. Seemed to help my neck and I am ready to sleep now.
Thank you

Really nice! I found it very helpful for increasing depth of concentration on the breath. Thank you🙏

So sim0le to concentrate on the opposite. This is valuable info for a chronic pain patient. Thank yòu! Nameste.

Excellent exercise. VERY helpful!!! 🙏

Very helpful thanks🙏it worked on Migraine as well

Thank you for your simple guidance and clarity

Thank you. I like learning this new way of thinking about in and out breath. Dealing with kidney stone pain. This gives me something to focus on besides pain and fear of pain.

A pretty amazing meditation, that helps with my pain every time! Thank you for putting this up ❤️🙏

I had glimpses of relief. Nice!

But I kept confusing pleasure as the outbreath because it's pleasurable to relax. I changed the inhale to "richness" - the flow in of a lovely necessity. That helped me be more clear in my focus.

Got me through my stomach spasms. 👍🏻

Thank you! I really appreciate this new focus. With each inhale and exhale I could feel my cells saying, "ohhh, wonderful."

The pain I was feeling was really intense. After meditating I'm calm and feeling a lot better. Thank you very much.

Interesting concept, it helped a little… Thank you 😊

Brilliantly simple and effective. Thank you!

Great, this is so helpful. Namaste.

I like your tip on focusing on the pleasure of breathing in and out. Something we forget. Pleasure simply by being able to breath and able to breath clean air. Thank you.