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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:
"Dr. Jackie's book provides a holistic approach to help people manage and cope with their daily pain. The Mindfulness Solution to Pain provides hope to anyone who is suffering and losing function as a result of constant pain.”
—Sol Stern, MD, chairman of Palliative Care at Halton Healthcare Services in Oakville, ON, Canada
Foreword Jon Kabat-Zin v
Acknowledgments xi
Introduction 1
Chapter 1 Getting started on managing your pain: understanding why you have it 16
Chapter 2 Mindfulness: what is it? getting acquainted with your inner resources (1) 23
Chapter 3 Meditation 101: getting acquainted with your inner resources (2) 31
Chapter 4 Mindfulness: checking in on your progress 31
Chapter 5 Meditation challenges 49
Chapter 6 Searching the brain for clues to pain: turning on that flashlight 56
Chapter 7 Reclaiming the parts that hurt: the body scan 77
Chapter 8 Reclaiming caring for yourself: your physical needs 103
Chapter 9 People stress 121
Chapter 10 Art: see the pain-feel the gain 134
Chapter 11 Visualizations and guided imagery 162
Chapter 12 Reclaiming your life: with pain or without 174
Appendix 190
Recommended reading 195
References 197
Index 203
Anonymous
Posted September 13, 2011
Presented in a manner that is easy to follow and understand. The step by step procedures make for easy to follow guideline. Using this book has increased my quality of life! I will continue these practices on a daily basis.
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Posted March 24, 2009
The Mindfulness Solution to Pain is very effective at demonstrating the mind-body connection. Dr Jackie looks beyond the symptoms of pain to what life experiences, personal relationships or other factors may be contributing to the pain. The book is easy to read and understand; it's interspersed with insightful experiences and includes practical mindfulness and meditation exercises. This book is a good resource for everybody, not only those suffering from chronic pain!
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Posted March 19, 2009
The Mindfulness Solution to Pain is for everyone who wants to understand how life experiences affect our behavior, emotions, as well as our ability to heal and deal with life's challenges. It's step-by-step approach is easy to read, understand and follow as it opens the reader's eyes to their own inner resources and how to use them. This should be required reading for all.
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Posted March 1, 2009
"Dr. Jackie" opens a whole new world of possibilities and hope for the pain sufferer. She makes a credible, compelling case for the mind-body connection---the impact of thought on pain and well-being. From there, her tools for tackling pain are easily grasped and implemented, even for people with limited mobility. This globally respected pain specialist has the warmth and compassion of a woman who is intent on the world discovering the amazing power of the mind to enhance healing and relief.
The book offers fascinating insights into the true origins of many kinds of pain. Your upbringing, whether you are "sensitive" or "stoical", and "body memory" of emotional trauma all factor into today's experience of pain. With knowledge and understanding of the roots of pain that go beyond obvious injury, great relief can follow.
I've used Jackie's guided meditations for several years, and had the great luck of taking a class full of doctors lead by Jackie when she was first sharing her learning with her peers. I've seen first hand the transformative power this had on doctors in the class that suffered from chronic pain themselves; living "mindfully" has improved the quality of my life and I'm delighted that this book, filled with all the proven techniques of her classes, can now help so many people.
From the person looking for help managing stress to the person who has suffered from crippling pain for years, this book is a guide to getting your life back.
---Nancy Vonk
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Overview
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 ...