As many of you will know I am a great believer in the power of the mind, and this article on the worldwidehealth.com website confirms the power of one method of harnessing this power to control pain.
This is a serious piece of research by Pierre Rainville, a researcher at the University of Montreal, who together with his colleagues report their findings in the journal Pain.
The findings do appear to show that people practising Zen meditation have lower pain sensitivity.
As meditation is something that can be learnt quite easily, this line of research could prove very promising. Effective pain relief without drugs being a worthwhile goal.
Get the full story here.
Chronic back pain? Sleep more!
Finally here is a link to an article on wsocth.com which links the amount of sleep we get to the amount and degree of pain we feel.
In short, more sleep, less pain. Find out more.
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