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 Dear Reader,
Is meditation just for those "earthy crunchy" types, or can it dramatically change your well-being?
Just a few days ago, the Journal of Neuroscience published research showing that meditation can in fact produce surprisingly powerful pain relief.
It's the first study of its kind, showing that meditating for a little over an hour can reduce pain. And we're not just talking about a little change, either.
With meditation, there was an impressive 40 per cent reduction in the intensity of pain, and a whopping 57 per cent reduction in pain unpleasantness. To put that in perspective, consider that pain relievers, even major ones like morphine, typically only reduce pain ratings by 25 per cent.
The participants in the study had never meditated before. They attended four classes to learn a technique called focused attention, in which you focus on breathing and try to rid yourself of distracting thoughts and emotions.
The brain activity of the participants was studied with imaging before and after meditation training. The participants had a heat device applied to their skin — the device heated a small area of the skin to 120 degrees over the course of five minutes.
Yeah, that's going to cause some pain.
The scans that were taken after meditation showed that every single participant had a reduction in pain ratings. The decreases ranged from 11 all the way up to 93 per cent.
Meditation also reduced activity in an area of the brain that creates the feeling of where and how intense pain is. Before meditation training, activity in this area was very high in response to pain. During meditation, though, activity couldn't even be detected.
Other areas of the brain were also affected by meditation, which may be why the effect was so strong — researchers said the fact that multiple levels of brain processing were involved speaks to the dramatic effectiveness of meditation on pain.
I find this especially exciting because it didn't take long at all for the participants to learn the meditation technique. After only four 20-minute training sessions, they were seeing incredible results in pain relief.
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Sources:
"Demystifying Meditation – Brain Imaging Illustrates How Meditation Reduces Pain," Newswise (newswise.com)
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