Pain Relief
Meditation increases pain tolerance, even a little practice everyday helps , new research shows.
Very brief training in mindfulness meditation had a positive impact on pain perception on humans in the study, conducted by researchers from the University of North Carolina, Charlotte, USA.
They recruited college students who had never meditated before and gave them a single hour of meditation training, spread out over three consecutive days.
Over the course of three experiments, all the study participants were subjected to harmless, but somewhat painful, electric shocks of varied intensity as the session progressed.
The researchers measured the participants rating of pain at “low” and “high” levels, and they also measured changes in the participants’ general sensitivity to pain.
They found that the meditation training appeared to influence pain perception even when the trained study subjects weren’t meditating.
Regular meditation is good for mind, body and soul.
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