Mindfulness Solution to Pain: Step-by-Step Techniques for Chronic Pain Management

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The Mindfulness Solution to Pain: Step-by-Step Techniques for Chronic Pain Management by Jackie Gardner-Nix with a forword by Jon Kabat-Zinn

Your mood, thoughts, and emotions can affect your perception of pain and even your ability to heal. In fact, your past life experiences influence your current physical challenges: “your biography influences your biology.” While treatments like medication and physical therapy can be enormously beneficial to the body, to maximize pain relief, it’s necessary to take advantage of the mind’s healing abilities. This book offers a revolutionary new treatment approach, mindfulness-based chronic pain management, that helps you harness your mind’s power to quiet your pain and put you in control.

Mindfulness practice, which includes stationary meditations, movement meditations, mindful art, and other strategies, will help you:

Understand how emotions and thoughts affect physical symptoms
Reverse the debilitating effects of some chronic pain conditions
Prevent pain from becoming chronic or long-term
Lift the anxiety and depression that may accompany chronic pain

About the author

Jackie Gardner-Nix, MD, PhD, is a chronic pain consultant in the Department of Anesthesia and the Pain Clinic of St Michael's Hospital in Toronto, ON, Canada, and the Department of Anesthesia and Pain Management at Sunnybrook Health Services Centre, also in Toronto. She is assistant professor in the Department of Anaesthesia, at the University of Toronto. Gardner-Nix is internationally renowned for her ability in managing chronic pain through expert use of medications. She has been on advisory boards for pain medications, including for the College of Physicians and Surgeons, the Ontario Medical Association, and the Ministry of Health. She is an accomplished speaker who has given many workshops and presentations internationally, and has written publications on palliative care and control of chronic non-cancer pain. She was a Toronto Sun Women on the Move nominee in 1994 for her work in palliative care.

Mindfulness with Jon Kabat-Zinn -- YouTube video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3nwwKbM_vJc

Les Fehmi PhD: Dissolving Pain

Dissolving Pain: Simple Brain-Training Exercises for Overcoming Chronic Pain by Dr. Les Fehmi and Jim Robbins 

For four decades, Dr. Les Fehmi has been a leader in brainwave biofeedback (also called neurofeedback), training individuals how to balance and regulate their brainwave patterns to improve mental, emotional, and physical health.

Dissolving Pain is based on the premise that although pain is perceived to exist in a particular part of the body, pain in fact resides in the brain. Dr. Fehmi shows us that it is possible to learn to resolve pain at the brain level, using simple attention exercises. Drawing on scientific research, Dr. Fehmi explains how to quiet the pain signal in the brain, empowering readers to free themselves from many forms of pain and discomfort.

Included with the book is a 65-minute audio CD in which Dr. Fehmi guides listeners through the fundamental Dissolving Pain exercises.

To learn more, visit openfocus.com.
Reviews
“The techniques described in this book can make life fuller, more enjoyable, and more productive.”— Andrew Weil, MD
“These mental techniques help you to experience your body and even your heart in a new way.”—Publishers Weekly

“Try it. It works.”—Martha Beck, O Magazine

“Dissolving Pain is rich with scientific information but presented in understandable terms. The series of exercises are straightforward and easy to follow.”—New Age Retailer  

“A revolutionary technique based on well-researched brainwave feedback. This valuable resource offers insights into understanding how pain resides in the brain and how to quiet it.”—ForeWord Reviews This Week
About the Author
Jim Robbins is an award-winning journalist and science writer, with frequent contributions to the New York Times, Smithsonian, Scientific American, Discover, and Psychology Today. In connection with his reporting, he has appeared on ABC’s Nightline and on NPR’s All Things Considered and Morning Edition.