How Do You Deal with Physical Pain?
When you are meditating it is generally advisable to resist a first impulse to change your posture as soon as you experience physical pain. We direct our attention to the experience of the ache and try to welcome it as a challenge instead of something unpleasant. This gives us a chance to observe our automatic reactions and the process that we go through when our concentration is disrupted and we get irritated. Observe how the body and the mind react to each other. Learn to accept the aches and learn to stay relaxed in spite of the aches. If you accept the pain, the character and the intensity of the pain will change. If you cannot avoid it, then change your posture. Do this with great awareness. In general starters in the field of meditation experience most trouble with aches in the back, the legs and the knees. The tips described above may be hard for them to put into practice because they have little experience with meditation. When you are a beginner do not make things too hard for yourself and do not hesitate to start meditating on a chair or a cushion. Realise that when you meditate more often in the course of time most aches will disappear.
Tip: When you regularly experience slight aches in your body while meditating it is advisable to do some stretch exercises before you start meditating. Surf to Warming Up: Stretching on our site to find some suitable exercises.
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