Washington (SmartAboutHealth) – According to a new study, meditation practice is actually more powerful than medication in terms of its ability to relieve pain.Researchers from the Wake Forest University School of Medicine in Winston-Salem, North Carolina worked on this breakthrough study to take a closer look at the type of impact meditation had on pain, and how much relief it could provide.
Meditation is extremely complex, but breaking it down into simpler terms, it is a state you put your body in where your mind of free from the world around you.
The idea was to see how meditation compared to pain relief medication.
In a lab setting, researchers applied heat probes to male and female participants at a temperature of 120F.
They did this first while they were on medications or pain relief drugs, and then while they were meditating.
What researchers found is that the meditation allowed for further pain relief than the drugs.
Participants in meditation during this were 57% less unpleasant under these painful circumstances. They also stated that the heat was not as intense.
The study has been published in the Journal of Neuroscience.end quote.
My parents taught me to meditate and contemplate as a child and as a result I almost never take any pain medication ever. As a result my mind and body still work pretty good at age 62. If you study in a holistic way the mind body interface and then experiment with meditation, contemplation and or direct prayer or "lucid dreaming" which is a technique many cancer patients now use to "will" their cancer to end with varying results, you can begin to see just how powerful the mind-body connection actually is.
For example, I found quite young that I had the ability to go in my mind to many places much like one does when traveling in cyberspace on a computer. Only in one's mind it is a different experience. For example, when I got a heart virus in fall 1998 I couldn't oxygenate my blood and so it makes a person lose consciousness and if one panics they die. So, in order not to die I learned to control my descent into unconsciousness from lack of oxygenation by using a disconnection meditation I learned both as a baby surviving whooping cough and through a Tibetan meditation that allows one to disconnect from states of consciousness that aren't useful and might even cause one's death if allowed to persist. So, I agree meditation whether it is on something like looking at a candle flame as a focus or a word mantra or whether it is a type of meditation where you look for the source of your thoughts which is also a unique kind of meditation that allows one to subconsciously throw up everything not useful. By focusing on looking for the source of your thoughts it gives you a focus to avoid looking at whatever comes up. But it also allows whatever comes up to dissipate out and to stop bothering you on a deep subconscious level which also might be affecting your overall health.
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