{"id":2415,"date":"2010-05-14T00:51:31","date_gmt":"2010-05-14T04:51:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.howtocopewithpain.org\/blog\/?p=2415"},"modified":"2018-12-29T10:05:50","modified_gmt":"2018-12-29T14:05:50","slug":"brief-mindfulness-meditation-helpful","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.howtocopewithpain.org\/blog\/2415\/brief-mindfulness-meditation-helpful\/","title":{"rendered":"Even <i>Brief<\/i> Mindfulness Meditation Training Can Help"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">In the time it takes to watch a\u00a01-hour TV show, you could learn a technique that helps with pain!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.howtocopewithpain.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/watchTV.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-2416\" title=\"couple watching TV\" src=\"http:\/\/www.howtocopewithpain.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/watchTV-300x189.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"189\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.howtocopewithpain.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/watchTV-300x189.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.howtocopewithpain.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/watchTV.jpg 396w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Researchers in the Department of Psychology at the University of North Carolina, Charlotte, taught participants mindfulness meditation for 20 minutes each day, over 3 days. They then tested how using this type of meditation helped people tolerate painful electrical stimulation. After learning mindfulness meditation, people rated the same electrical shock lower on a pain scale. As well, people could tolerate higher level shocks when using mindfulness exercises.<\/p>\n<p>Mindfulness meditation worked better in these 2 areas than did relaxation exercises. Math distraction (doing math problems in your head) also resulted in people rating pain lower on a pain scale,but it didn&#8217;t help study participants tolerate higher shocks. This type of &#8220;experimental&#8221; pain is different from experiencing chronic pain, so this particular\u00a0study doesn&#8217;t prove\u00a0that mindfulness exercises help in chronic pain. But these results are consistent with other studies showing the benefits of mindfulness meditation for pain.<\/p>\n<p><em>The article appeared in <\/em><em>The Journal of Pain<\/em><em>, Volume 11, March 2010, pages 199-209.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the time it takes to watch a\u00a01-hour TV show, you could learn a technique that helps with pain! Researchers in the Department of Psychology at the University of North Carolina, Charlotte, taught participants mindfulness meditation for 20 minutes each day, over 3 days. They then tested how using this type of meditation helped people [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2415","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-1"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.howtocopewithpain.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2415","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.howtocopewithpain.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.howtocopewithpain.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.howtocopewithpain.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.howtocopewithpain.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2415"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.howtocopewithpain.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2415\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7999,"href":"https:\/\/www.howtocopewithpain.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2415\/revisions\/7999"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.howtocopewithpain.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.howtocopewithpain.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.howtocopewithpain.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}