AI and Mindfulness: A New Way to Manage Pain - Neuroscience News
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AI and Mindfulness: A New Way to Manage Pain - Neuroscience News
and conscious self-healing. Over the past forty years research in mindfulness-based interventions (MBIs) have demonstrated reductions in a wide variety of clinical issues and syndromes including chronic pain, anxiety, obsessive compulsive disorder, depression, self-injurious behavior, and addictions. Additionally, immune function, concentration, em
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A new study, published in Biological Psychiatry, has revealed that mindfulness meditation engages distinct brain mechanisms to reduce pain compared to those of the placebo response.
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When you pay attention to your pain mindfully, you’re observing it without fear. Neuroscientists have shown that mindfulness increases feelings of safety by deactivating the brain’s fear circuits. This disrupts the pain-fear cycle and helps your brain interpret signals properly.
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mindfulness meditators show symptom lessening in a remarkable range of physiological disorders, from sheer jitters to hypertension and chronic pain. “Some of the biggest effects found with mindfulness are biological,” says Davidson, adding, “It’s surprising for an exercise that trains attention.”
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By separating pain from the self and relinquishing evaluative judgment, mindfulness meditation is able to directly modify how we experience pain in a way that uses no drugs, costs nothing and can be practiced anywhere.
Jeffrey Schwartz and Sharon Begley (2002) credit Buddhist mindfulness practice with providing insights to help obsessive-compulsive patients.
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The study found that mindfulness helped the nurses experience fewer negative emotions and less rumination — repetitive negative thinking.