Books, Research Papers, Articles, and Videos

Books

The Mindfulness Solution to Pain by Jackie Gardner-Nix with Lucie Costin Hall, preface by Jon Kabat-Zinn, 2009, published by New Harbinger Publications, Oakland, California

Your mood, thoughts, and emotions can affect your perception of pain and even your ability to heal. In fact, your past life experiences influence your current physical challenges: “your biography influences your biology.” While treatments like medication and physical therapy can be enormously beneficial to the body, to maximize pain relief, it’s necessary to take advantage of the mind’s healing abilities. This book offers a revolutionary new treatment approach, mindfulness-based chronic pain management, that helps you harness your mind’s power to quiet your pain and put you in control.

Mindfulness practice, which includes stationary meditations, movement meditations, mindful art, and other strategies, will help you:

• Understand how emotions and thoughts affect physical symptoms
• Reverse the debilitating effects of some chronic pain conditions
• Prevent pain from becoming chronic or long-term
• Lift the anxiety and depression that may accompany chronic pain

Research Papers

• Evaluating distance education of a mindfulness-based meditation programme for chronic pain management
• Validating PRISM (Pictorial Representation of Illness and Self Measure) as a Measure of Suffering in Chronic Non-Cancer Pain Patients
• Exploring the Effectiveness of a Mindfulness-Based Chronic Pain Management Course Delivered Simultaneously to On-Site and Off-Site Patients Using Telemedicine
• JPR-Sensitivity to Pain Traumatization Scale development, validation, and preliminary findings

Articles

• The Universities of Bangor, Exeter and Oxford  – Development and Validation of the Mindfulness-Based Interventions – Teaching Assessment Criteria (MBITAC)
• Defining Trauma-Informed, which characterizes what NNC has built into the Mindfulness course offerings:  http://bccewh.bc.ca/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/2013_TIP-Guide.pdf

Videos

• A good resource: Kelly McGonigal’s talk on: What Science can teach us about Practice:  The NeuroScience of Mindfulness:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jMsatDwx07o
• A fun you tube video to access about men and womens’ differences in brain processing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3XjUFYxSxDk
• A great TED talk about education and how the current emphasis on education disembodies us, gradually pushing us to live in our heads —and use our bodies for transporting our heads(!):  https://www.ted.com/talks/sir_ken_robinson_do_schools_kill_creativity