How meditation helps when dealing with pain
Unless you’ve been hiding under a rock, I’m sure you’ve heard of the numerous benefits of meditation and how it can particularly help deal with difficult emotions like grief, anxiety, and depression.
What often gets confused is that meditation will not directly fix the problem which is causing these types of feelings. What it does do though is detach you from the reactions caused by these issues and put you into a calmer and more composed mental state to be able to then appraoch and deal with what is causing the pain.
To explain how this works in greater detail, I caught up with Men’s Health Magazine editor, Scott Henderson, on his new podcast, Sneakers.
Take a listen to the full episode below: