58 // Pain, Illness and Mindfulness

The Mindful Kind

Rachael Kable

Mindfulness, Mindful, Health & Fitness, Self-help, Inspiration

4.6 • 636 Ratings

🗓️ 22 December 2016

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

Welcome to episode 58 of The Mindful Kind podcast.

In this episode, discover more about non-judgement and mindfulness, pertaining to illness and pain.

How can we use mindfulness to be less judgemental of pain, illness and challenging emotions?

Here are a few ideas:

- Experience something which may feel unpleasant or uncomfortable

- Try not to judge it as bad, or wrong

- Allow yourself to move forward

Please remember, these tips are not meant to replace medical advice, nor substitute for pain management. I simply hope they will help you cope with your difficult experiences, once you've done all you can do to manage them properly.

I hope you enjoy the episode and have a wonderful week, Mindful Kind.

Transcript

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0:00.0	Hello everybody and welcome to the mindful kind.
0:07.5	I'm your host, Rachel Cable, and I'm here to share insights into my mindfulness journey
0:12.3	and inspire you to create your own.
0:14.9	Each week, this podcast will bring fresh and exciting news about mindfulness,
0:19.7	from my personal experiences to useful tools and different
0:23.6	mindful techniques.
0:31.5	Hello and welcome to episode 58 of the Mindful Kind podcast. The idea for this podcast episode has been brewing for
0:41.7	some time now, but to be completely honest with you, I wasn't really sure how I wanted to talk
0:47.6	about it. You see, non-judgment is a really important part of mindfulness, but it's something I
0:54.0	still really struggle with myself.
0:56.7	Slowly, though, I've been practicing and more and more it's feeling easier to be less
1:03.1	judgmental of the moment, including how I feel and think in that moment and also what my
1:08.8	experience of that moment is. If you've been following me along
1:13.6	on social media or reading my newsletters, you might already know that I've been unwell a few
1:19.5	times over the last month. A cold turned into a chest infection and I developed a tooth infection
1:25.3	and the antibiotics knocked me around. It wasn't a particularly
1:29.8	enjoyable time, but I also saw it as an opportunity to practice mindfulness, including non-judgment.
1:37.7	So here's a bit of a breakdown of what I tried to do. One, experience something which wasn't pleasant. Two, try not to judge it as bad or wrong
1:48.3	or wish it was over. Three, move on and let go. It was a very different reaction to sickness that I've
1:56.4	had in the past. For example, back when I was in year 11 of high school, I was having difficulties
2:02.3	with headaches. I would get them at least every few days, sometimes just day after day,
2:08.3	from my neck up the back of my head. I did test for my eyesight, I had scans done, and eventually
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