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Physical Health & Pain

Your mind and body aren't separate systems - what happens in one affects the other. Explore how mindfulness and meditation can help with chronic pain, illness, recovery, and overall physical well-being.
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Magazine
Game Face On 

Hockey enthusiast Geoff Eaton faces-off against leukemia – and plays the game of his life. Read Geoff's story in The Healing Circle, by Rob Rutledge and Timothy Walker. Read More 

  • Line Goguen-Hughes
  • February 7, 2011
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Magazine
Suffering Is Optional 

Physical pain is unavoidable, but meditation practice can ease the mental suffering that often accompanies it. Susan Smalley and Diana Winston teach us how. Read More 

  • Mindful Staff
  • January 25, 2011
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Magazine
Inner Peace is an Onion 

Journalist Jenn Director Knudsen researches how to peel back the layers to find the mind-body connection. Read More 

  • Line Goguen-Hughes
  • January 20, 2011
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Magazine
Toning Down Tinnitus 

Mindful meditation can help recondition the brain so that it comes to terms with tinnitus, say psychologists and hearing specialists working with the therapy. Read More 

  • Line Goguen-Hughes
  • December 20, 2010
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Magazine
The Magic of Mindfulness 

Health writer Ed Halliwell explains that mindfulness can help improve our mental and physical well-being, if we don’t sabotage the practice… Read More 

  • Ed Halliwell
  • November 30, 2010
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Guided Meditations
One Moment at a Time 

Vidyamala Burch offers mindfulness practices for coping with experiences of pain and suffering. Read More 

  • Mindful Staff
  • November 25, 2010
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Magazine
The Secret of Success for MBSR 

Mindful practices alleviate pain and stress. Barry Boyce reports on a couple of doctors who are leading the way in mindful revolution and helping people along the way. Read More 

  • Barry Boyce
  • August 24, 2010
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Guided Meditations
Meeting Pain with Awareness 

Jon Kabat-Zinn, a keynote speaker at the 2011 Creating a Mindful Society conference, teaches you how.  Read More 

  • Mindful Staff
  • August 23, 2010
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