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 Articles
- Evaluating distance education of a mindfulness-based meditation programme for chronic pain management
- Exploring the Effectiveness of a Mindfulness-Based Chronic Pain Management Course Delivered Simultaneously to On-Site and Off-Site Patients Using Telemedicine
- Validating PRISM (Pictorial Representation of Illness and Self Measure) as a Measure of Suffering in Chronic Non-Cancer Pain Patients
- Mindfulness-Based Intervention (MBI) – Teacher Assessment Criteria
- The Universities of Bangor, Exeter and Oxford – Development and Validation of the Mindfulness-Based Interventions – Teaching Assessment Criteria (MBITAC)
- Mindfulness-Based Programs: Why, When, and How to Adapt
Videos
- Kelly McGonigal’s What Science Can Teach Us About Practice: The NeuroScience of Mindfulness (20:03)
- Marriage expert Mark Gungor discusses the differences in brain processing between men and women. A Tale of Two Brains Video (13:34)
- Sir Ken Robinson delivers a compelling TED talk – making a case for nurturing creativity within the education system. Do Schools Kill Creativity? (19:12)
- A conversation with David Treleaven, Dr. Jackie Gardner-Nix and Dr. Allen Steverman on Mindfulness, Trauma and Chronic Pain (1:03:11)