Welcome to Meditation Oasis.

This is Mary Maddox. You can visit us at MeditationOasis.com. We've had a request for a guided meditation

for pain. So you can do this meditation either sitting or lying down. Just find a position

that's the most comfortable for you. Now close your eyes. What do you experience when

you close your eyes? Probably there are sounds around you. There's the feeling of your body lying

down or sitting. Breath is moving in and out. All kinds of activity in the mind. You may be aware of

emotions and there may be the experience of pain. It could be that that's a very very strong experience.

Along with that pain, there'll be feelings about the pain.

There'll be things that we do in our body to try to make the pain go away or make it less.

There can be quite a lot of involvement with the pain. Mental involvement thoughts about it.

Emotions about it. So noticing both the experience of pain and all of those other experiences that

have to do with the pain. Let us if there's any tightening in your muscles as you feel that pain.

Let go of that.

Notice if there are any thoughts about how long will this pain go on or how terrible that I have

this pain, how awful this pain is. I don't know if I can bear this pain. Notice if there are

thoughts like that about the pain. That's fine. That's natural. What we'll do for this meditation

is simply notice those thoughts and let them go. Not following the train of those thoughts.

Letting them go. They'll keep appearing but letting them go, not becoming involved with them.

Notice if there are any emotions about the pain, anger, frustration, sadness, fear.

Any emotion that seems related to the pain.

Allow yourself to feel that fully. Allow that feeling to be present, completely present without

resistance without trying to change it.

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