AI and Mindfulness: A New Way to Manage Pain

AI and Mindfulness: A New Way to Manage Pain - Neuroscience News

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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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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.

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Mindfulness for Health: A practical guide to relieving pain, reducing stress and restoring wellbeing

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The study found that mindfulness helped the nurses experience fewer negative emotions and less rumination — repetitive negative thinking.

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Chronic pain patients show unique activity in the limbic system and prefrontal cortex, parts of the brain involved in emotions, mood, memory, behavior, and decision-making.

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