It looks like scientists have finally developed enough research to support the fact that one’s own mind may actually contribute to the reduction of pain. In the following article posted by MSN Health and Fitness, you’ll discover MRIs captured how chronic pain patients were able to reduce their pain by about 60 percent. Some highlights of the “scientific results” they found are:

You can intensify pain episodes by putting a negative spin on your pain fearing it, dreading it, considering it the worst thing in your life.

Conversely, you can significantly reduce your pain by recognizing and blunting such noxious thinking.

You can actually shut down the signals that are responsible for pain by doing relaxation exercises such as meditation, guided imagery, and deep breathing. The relief you’ll gain can enable you to reduce your use of pain medication; when combined with the exercises, the lower doses are particularly effective.

In the same way that Buddhist monks’ meditative practices can physically rewire their brains, yours could develop on its own the capacity to resist pain. “We think the brain may be able to build ongoing pain tolerance,” says Scott M. Fishman, MD, a professor and chief of the division of pain medicine at the University of California, Davis. “It’s consistent with what the Buddhists teach: We have enormous power to control the sensations that affect us.”

But before you can start to exercise that control, you first need to identify the major mental
pain magnifiers.

It seems that meditation and the Law of Attraction have made their way into the science lab. Finally! You can read the entire article here.


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