For thousands of years, meditators have understood that the experience of pain can be transformed by meditation. Indeed, some traditions have seen incredibly arduous challenges as a pathway to spiritual purification, with followers seeking out gruelling physical experiences to achieve mental purification. So it is not surprising that followers of the contemplative traditions have long understood a great deal about pain. The potential benefit of Mindfulness has been recognis

The more that we understand about pain, the better chance we have of doing something that will truly influence it. And the most important thing to understand is that, no matter what kind of injury or disease we may have, pain is an output of the brain. We may have a serious injury that hurts - a deep wound for example. It may seem obvious that this wound is the cause of our pain. And yet this is not entirely the case. A surprisingly high number of people attend accident a