No pain can't be alleviated or healed without resting. Resting doesn't comes separated from Stopping and Practising. The three big points go in togetherness. Each of them contains the other two. Promoting resting can be difficult to be carried out when one is in pain. Everything that can help the release of pain is valid for as long as that is made in awareness. The breath helps the knot of blocked energy to get dissolve and awareness helps at the same time to follow the in and out coming air helping in that way the unblocking, , pumping of the heart, blood circulation, in general the oxygenation of all the cells in the body. Some people find helpful relaxation techniques to promote a good sleep. One can try what is the best for one. Different people get relax with different things. There are the ones who get relax by lying down and leave the body at its own recovery. There are the ones who find themselves getting relax by the hearing, smell, touching... of nature sounds..., Personally, I don't discriminate against anything that can help me at a different moments and degree of pain. And once again because one has adopted as a second skin the awareness of the in and out breathing, the breath becomes one Venerable Teacher. This Master is beyond duality or any Preconceived ideas. No one will tell one better here. Depends upon the degree of pain I rest in bed and that's it!. There are moments in bed in which I only stay fully present with my pain with no distractions of any kind. There are moments in which I choose to listen to music that helps me to relax. There are moments in which I choose to watch a movie that will promote something I lack of at those moments such as strenght, courage, joy.... For instance it's not a good idea to choose reading a book or watching a movie where there is blood, violence, aggression....as that will tense more the body. Points that will promote to alleviate and healing the pain. Relaxation Promoting good sleep Appropriate Environment Medications taking with care Walking Meditation Cultivating positive thinking Diet: Ingestion of foods physical and mental Fasting Drinking lots of liquids specially water Mayka
