Is mindfulness the new hip trend?  Is the core of mindfulness being lost as it becomes a superficial practice?是mindfulness新的髋关节的趋势？的核心是mindfulness正在失去，因为它成为一种肤浅的做法呢？

I talk with my patients about mindfulness, about being wherever they are in terms of pain, and about accepting their state, including pain.我所说与我的病人约mindfulness ， 被他们在哪里，在条款疼痛，并接受他们的国家，包括疼痛。

So an interesting article in因此，一个有趣的文章 Utne magazine utne杂志 about what mindfulness really is caught my eye.  The author,什么mindfulness 真的是引起了我的眼睛。作者， Thubten Chodron thubten chodron , is an American-born Tibetan nun and an abbess at a Buddhist monastic community in Washington state.  She wondered if mindfulness is the latest Buddhist jargon going around.  ( ，是一个在美国出生的西藏尼姑和一abbess在一个佛教寺院的社会在华盛顿州。她想知道如果mindfulness是最新的佛教术语，前往靠近。 （ Click here点击这里 to see her whole article.)看到她整篇文章） 。

Chodron highlights that there is a difference between practicing mindfulness and the traditional Buddhist understanding of mindfulness as a component of the path to liberation . chodron强调，两者是有分别的实践mindfulness与传统佛教的认识， mindfulness作为一个组成部分的路径解放 。

She writes that Buddha described four basic ways we misunderstand our experiences in this world, and that mindfulness is a remedy to our misunderstanding.  Here’s what we misunderstand:她写道：佛陀所描述的四个基本方面，我们误解了我们的经验，在这个世界上，并mindfulness是一个补救措施，以我们的误解。这里是我们的误解：

1. 1 。 We think things are permanent. 我们认为，事情是永久。
When things are good, we don’t want anything to change.  However, we need to learn that people and things are impermanent.  We do this by being open to our own aging, to death, and to losing people and things in our lives.  Things come… things go… things change.当事情是好的，我们不希望有所改变。不过，我们需要学习的人的事情，是永恒的，我们做到这一点，正在开放给我们自己的老化，死亡，和失去人民的事情，在我们的生活事情来的事情… …事情的变化。

2. 2 。 We look for happiness from things that can’t bring happiness to us. 我们所寻求的幸福的事情，并不能带来幸福，给我们。

We need to let go of the hope that “happiness is just around the corner.”  That a new job, better partner, or more financial success will make us happy.  Otherwise, we stay in the cycle of striving for things to be different from what they are, and we experience disappointment when what we’re hoping will bring us lasting happiness doesn’t do that.  We need to accept things as they are.我们要放手的希望“幸福只是周围的角落” ，这一份新的工作，更好的合作伙伴，或更多的财务上的成功将使我们很乐意，否则，我们留在循环争取的东西有所不同，从他们是什么，以及我们的经验，感到失望时，什么我们希望将我们带来持久的幸福，不这样做，我们必须接受的事情，因为他们。

3. 3 。 We fight against nature and how things are. 我们斗争的性质和如何的东西。
Chodron gives the example of our own bodies and how we fight to make them different than they are.  We want to be thinner, less wrinkly, never go gray.  We need to accept our changing selves.  With acceptance comes being with how things are, instead of distress over the difference between how we want things to be and how they actually are. chodron给出了例证，说明我们自己的身体，以及我们如何争取，使他们不同的比他们是我们要成为更薄，少wrinkly ，从来没有去灰，我们必须接受我们的改变守土有责。与接受谈到正在与如何的东西，而不是困扰，超过之间的差异如何，我们想要的东西，要如何和他们其实是。

4. 4 。 We see ourselves as separate from others. 我们看到自己作为单独的从别人的。
Identifying a “me” brings emotions such as “craving, fear, hostility, anxiety, resentment, arrogance, and laziness,” which all bring suffering.  We fight to keep what is “mine.”  We’re resentful that others have more – more money, more beauty, more knowledge, etc.  We need to let go of evaluating and judging, and just accept things as they are.找出一个“我”带来的情绪，如“欲望，恐惧，敌意，焦虑，怨恨，傲慢和懒惰， ”所有带来的痛苦，我们的斗争中保持什么是“排雷”我们正在反感别人有更多的-更多的钱，更美丽，更多的知识，等我们需要放手的评价和判断，和刚才接受的事情，因为他们。

Chodron believes that by being more aware of our misunderstandings, we’re better able to let go of our “habitual, self-centered ways,” and become open to others and working for the benefit of all.  We become open to “genuine love and compassion.” chodron认为，通过更了解我们的误解，我们正在能够更好地放过我们的“习惯，以自我为中心的方法” ，成为开放给别人和工作为所有人的利益，我们成为开放的“真爱和同情“ 。

So how does mindfulness relate to pain? 因此，如何 mindfulness 涉及到疼痛？

First, let’s not give up the benefits of even the ”hip” practices of mindfulness exercises which can help with pain.  Simple mindfulness exercises such as a focus on首先，让我们不会放弃的好处，甚至“髋关节”的做法， mindfulness演习，可以帮助与痛苦。 mindfulness简单的演习，如把重点放在 breathing呼吸 or other或其他 relaxation exercises放宽演习 can certainly decrease stress and pain.当然可以减少压力和痛苦。

But how about this deeper sense of mindfulness that Chodron writes about?  Naturally most of us have these misunderstandings as they apply to our experience of pain, and we can use mindfulness to help ourselves.但如何对这个更深层的意义的mindfulness认为chodron写？当然我们大多数人有这些误解，因为它们适用于我们的经验，疼痛，我们可以使用mindfulness ，以帮助自己。

1.  We can let go of clinging to our desire for a healthy, un-painful body. 1 。我们可以放手的死抱着我们的愿望是一个健康的，联合国痛苦的身体。

Often with pain comes clinging to the past - what our bodies and our lives used to be like - which can cause sadness and depression.  (At the other end, we may over-focus on the future, which can bring anxiety - will I feel better? - and fear that we won’t.)  Focusing on the present can lessen this sadness on one end and the fear on the other end.往往与疼痛来死抱着以过去-我们的机构和我们的生活习惯一样-可以导致悲伤和抑郁症。 （在另一端，我们可能会过分着眼于未来，它可以带来的焦虑-将我觉得更好的吗-和恐惧，我们是不会。 ）着眼于目前可以减轻悲伤，这对一月底和恐惧，对另一端。

2.  We don’t need to wait until we’re pain-free to live. 2 。我们并不需要等待，直到我们的痛苦-免费居住。

Of course we’ll continue to work to make ourselves more comfortable.  But we can also focus on living our lives despite pain, and avoid an “I-won’t-be-happy-until-I’m-pain-free” attitude.  The goal is to be happy despite pain.当然，我们会继续努力，以使自己更舒适，但我们也可以集中在生活我们的生活，尽管疼痛，并避免一“我- won't -被-快乐，直到- i'm -疼痛-免费”的态度。目的是为了高兴，尽管疼痛。

3.  We can accept, nurture and care for our bodies, even in pain. 3 。我们可以接受，培育和照顾我们的身体，即使是在痛苦。

Do you practice loving kindness towards the areas of your body that are in pain?  Rather than seeing those parts as the enemy, remember that they’re part of you, but that they’re in trouble and need your care.你的做法，爱好爱心，对地区您的身体是在疼痛？而非看到的那些部分视为敌人，请记住，他们的一部分，您，但他们在美国的麻烦和需要您的照顾。

4.  We can move from an inward focus to opening up to others. 四，我们可以从一个外来的重点，以开放给他人。

We can keep our lives meaningful despite pain - keep our focus on family and friends, and our life’s work - even if that has to change, or how we do that has to change because of pain.  Again, the goal is living fully despite pain.我们能保持我们的生活有意义的，尽管疼痛-让我们专注于家人和朋友，和我们的生活中的工作-即使要改变，或如何，我们这样做，必须改变，因为疼痛。再次，目标是充分的生活尽管疼痛。

I do think that this is a process, a journey… actually a journey for a lifetime.我认为这是一个过程，旅程…其实是一个旅程了一生。

What helps you be mindful?  What helps you be mindful as it relates to pain?有什么可以帮助您注意什么可以帮助您注意，因为它关系到疼痛？

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