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

Secondary Suffering tends to dissolve when you observe it with the mind’s compassionate eye.

anxiety and other powerful ‘negative’ emotions prepare the body to sense pain quickly and with great intensity.

Reducing anxiety, stress, depression and exhaustion can lower the perception of pain and even eliminate it completely.

Acceptance of your pain can actually diminish it – and might even get rid of it completely.

If you mindfully accept (or feel) these messages, they will have done their job and will tend to melt away of their own accord.

Secondary Suffering can be seen as resistance to pain.

Stress, exhaustion and depression can all be made far worse through resistance.