I just wanted to add that I will be watching this subject quite closely. I have chronic knee pain from my short stint in the Marine Corps, which led to chronic back pain - and crippling back strains, every few months or so. I have tried drugs, therapy, and physical therapy, all to no avail. I'm now trying to realize and acknowledge my pain, to put it in a new perspective, so I can approach PT in a more healthy way.
Thank you for your insights. :) ~Audrey --- In [email protected], Maria Lopez <flordeloto@...> wrote: > > Hi ED: >  > That page are only tips towards pain in general. There is no specification > but just general ideas.    Her style is very alike TNH dharma and > retreats,  >  > Pain management can be a large subject with variations from to person to > person. >  > There are three big basic points to be developed into other points (I can > think of now): >  > Stopping > Resting > Practicing >  > Kindness, forbearance, endurance, pacience,  comes by themselves as a > result of stopping. An important detail forgotten in my previous post was > the one of "smiling". The half smile it softens a great deal the tension of > the body specially in the face where it is said that 300 muscles are in the > face. The half smile for some reason also brings out compassion in one. > It's a very interesting experience to be in acute pain, breathing in / out > with the half smile. If any of you have ever try, have a go. Not joking > at all. >  > Mayka >  >  >  >  > --- On Mon, 14/2/11, ED <seacrofter001@...> wrote: > > > From: ED <seacrofter001@...> > Subject: [Zen] Re: Pain Management 1 - Stopping > To: [email protected] > Date: Monday, 14 February, 2011, 16:08 > > >  > > > > > >  > About Vidyamala > Vidyamala is a co-founder and director of Breathworks, a company offering > `mindfulness-based strategies for living well'. > She runs courses in Manchester UK for people suffering from chronic pain and > illness, teaching them how to optimize quality of life using meditation and > other mindfulness-based strategies. She also is involved in running a > training program for those wishing to deliver the Breathworks programme in > other localities. > She suffered a spinal injury in 1976 and has used meditation and mindfulness > to manage her own chronic pain for many years. > Vidyamala's CDs of guided meditations â" developed as part of her > Breathworks pain management program â" are available for sale in our online > store. > http://www.wildmind.org/applied/pain/pain-management-tips >  > Mayka, > Could anyone state steps to manage chronic pain in a more complete, succinct > and clear manner than does the above teacher in the referenced article? > --ED >  >  > --- In [email protected], Maria Lopez <flordeloto@> wrote: > > > > Thanks for the link ED. >  > Anything that people have experienced in themselves in the treatment of pain > management is good to be share with others. But whatever writing created on > this subject without having the personal and direct experience in one, It > will bring disorientation to all those people who are in real pain and don't > know how to handle it. >  > Personally, talking about pain is not amongst my favourite subjects to talk > about it. Motherless, my experience with it is very real and that > experience is very valuable to other people who would like to know about it > as first hand. I was already requested in several occasions in the past to > share this experience and write in their magazine by high authorities of the > dharma. I never did it. I said that I had to go deeper into it and couldn't > be distracted by writing. Those authorities of the dharma know me > personally and face to face. So, I'm actually honouring this website and > the zen living one by writing about it. >  > You're great finding information and your links can be at times very > interesting. They add an spice to postings. So If you could find more about > this subject I should be grateful as it will save me time and effort of > writing posting about this subject. But try to find information that is > reliable and have been experienced by the one who writes. We don't want to > mess about this subject. We only genuinely want to share real experiences > about this subject to alleviate the pain in others. Don't we? >  > Thank you ED. > Mayka   >  >  >  > ED posted: > > > > > > http://www.wildmind.org/applied/pain/pain-management-tips > This person appears to me to very nicely state the case for how to manage > pain. > ------------------------------------ Current Book Discussion: any Zen book that you recently have read or are reading! Talk about it today!Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Zen_Forum/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Zen_Forum/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: [email protected] [email protected] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [email protected] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
