Meditation

Excerpts from the entry on Meditation in Relieving Pain Naturally by Dr. Sylvia Goldfarb and Roberta W. Waddell. For full entries on all 37 conditions and 27 treatments, order the book.

Meditation is a method of calming your mind, relaxing it, and keeping it focused on the present. When you are meditating, your body is in an even deeper state of dreamless rest than while you are asleep, and your mind is not concerned with what has happened in the past or what may occur in the future.

Also in this entry:

• The History of Meditation
• How Meditation Works
• Painful Conditions that Respond Well to Meditation
• Advantages of Meditation
• How to Use Meditation
• Cautions
• Clinical Studies

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