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Can Meditation Get You Through a Health Scare?

By Headspace

Odds are, we’ll all find ourselves, at some time in our life, in the midst of a medical crisis. Or, it may happen to someone we love. Certainly, no one is immune to old age, sickness, and death, but a meditation practice can help us make peace with this reality.

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7 Tips for Making Peace with Chronic Pain and Illness

New ideas for living well, even if our health is less than ideal.

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Yoga for Pain Relief

In this post, I apply the principles of therapeutic yoga to working with chronic pain conditions such as fibromyalgia, migraines, or back pain.

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The Benefits of Meditation When You’re Sick or in Pain

People are forever extolling the virtues of meditation, but who wants to focus on their breath or body when they’ve got a runny nose or aching bones? Even those who are sold on the mindfulness practice might be inclined to skip sessions when feeling under the weather.

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10 Strategies to Try When You’re Sick of Being Sick

After 15 years of chronic illness and even after writing a book titled How to Be Sick, I still can feel sick of being sick. (When I use the word “sick,” I’m including chronic pain.) If you’re as intimately familiar as I am with sick of being sick, you know how unpleasant it feels.

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20 Tips for Living Well with Chronic Pain and Illness

To celebrate the release of my new book, How To Live Well with Chronic Pain and Illness: A Mindful Guide, I’ve made a list of 20 tips to help with the health challenges all us face at one time or another in life.

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I’m a “Spoonie.” Here’s What I Wish More People Knew About Chronic Illness

Understand life with chronic illness in a way that’s never been explained before, using Christine Miserandino’s “Spoon Theory.”

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Complementary Therapies for Pain

Complementary therapies can be used to help with pain. These methods draw your attention away from the pain and release muscle tension caused by pain.

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Pain Management & Cancer Care

There are many different methods to control cancer pain.

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Mind, Body and Sport: How Being Injured Affects Mental Health

Injuries, while hopefully infrequent, are often an unavoidable part of sport participation. While most injuries can be managed with little to no disruption in sport participation and other activities of daily living, some impose a substantial physical and mental burden.

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Pain and the brain

Tracy Ward explores some of the neurological and behavioural changes that pain can bring about, and the implications for clinicians with athletes in their care.

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Chronic Pain