This page contains meditations by Catherine Lavelle and Peter Wilkes on how to deal with and learn from the experience of physical pain.
- Basic pain meditation. A 27 minute meditation in which participants are invited to meet physical pain with mindfulness of breath and hold their pain in a wider dimension of being.
2. Dissolving tension associated with a tension headache (30 minutes)
3. Dissolving pain to peace (15 minutes)
4. Dissolving pain with spacing techniques (43 minutes)
5. Opening the body to pain (30 minutes). Derived from Stephen Levine’s book “Who Dies?”
6. Exploring awareness beyond the body (32 minutes)
7. Exploring pain (with thanks to Stephen Levine)
8. Calming and resetting the nervous system by Catherine
9. RAIN practice for pain by Catherine
Other meditations you may find useful include:
Settling, grounding and resting practices
Introduction to Compassion practices
Mindful movement can also be very helpful but please work within your own abilities. Link to audio recordings of practices including mindful movement & yoga by Bangor Centre for Mindfulness
If you have any queries, please get in touch with us via highlandmindfulness@gmail.com
Highland Mindfulness Group 