Mindfulness Meditation for Pain Relief

Guided Practices for Reclaiming Your Body and Your Life

By: Jon Kabat-Zinn PhD

Narrated by: Jon Kabat-Zinn PhD

Discover how mindfulness can transform your relationship to pain and suffering, with Jon Kabat-Zinn
We know that practicing mindfulness in everyday life can help us reduce stress and cultivate deep, embodied well-being—but what about its effects on physical and emotional pain, especially when it seems overwhelming or unrelenting?

Jon Kabat-Zinn developed Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) to help medical patients with ongoing pain conditions who were not responding to conventional therapies. Since then, the practices of MBSR have become world-renowned for their effectiveness in pain management. With Mindfulness Meditation for Pain Relief, Kabat-Zinn provides a range of evidence-based mindfulness meditation practices that anyone can apply gently and effectively to even the most intense forms of pain and suffering.

Mindfulness Meditation for Pain Relief is a soothing program with guided meditations and teachings. It opens with an overview of seven fundamental attitudes we can develop to cultivate mindfulness in relationship to chronic pain and its incessant challenges, and follows with concepts and practices including: mindful breathing, working with intense sensations, befriending thoughts and emotions, finding refuge in awareness, and bringing mindfulness into every life.

For anyone tired of suffering from the challenges that chronic pain presents to living a full and appreciative life, this is a welcome guide.

Watch your mind

It seems that whenever my mind starts to wander while trying to do the practices he’s describing, I lose focus almost exactly when he says to watch your thoughts, emotions, and feelings drift by. I never thought to approach my pain non-judgmentally or expecting a certain outcome.

Awesome!!

Awesome, magnificent , take the reality of pain to a whole new level and completely soul satisfying!

Love anything by Jon Kabat-Zinn

This book gives an introduction to mindfulness practice and some mindfulness exercises including the body scan.

Not just for pain relief

I found the book on my own. A fantastic reminder of embracing yourself and life- each and every moment.

Healing and Warm with a Beautiful Voice

I live with chronic HeadPain known as
Occipital neuralgia… This is not a headache, this is pain that lives on the left side of my head and feels like a raw boil living under the scalp...
I have lived with this condition since 2012, and I've had surgery that was intended to help, and it did but at avery low percentage of improvement, which I am very grateful for.
Jon-Kabat-Zinn calms me with his voice,
which gave me the assurance that I could go ahead and try to listen to him through the pain… I will listen to him over and over again because I trust what he says and I felt better and I felt his sincerity. He doesn't demand anything from you, he just leads me gently, and again, his voice is so soothing and authentic & calming and I am blessed to have found him and his book on Audible… It was not recommended I just found it because I needed it. I hope you find it as soothing and as tender and healing as I have experienced with Jon's Meditation for Pain Relief.. Thank you for your time.