**SPECIAL ENCORE PRESENTATION**<\/p>\n
Current statistics tell us that 20% of the US population has some form of chronic pain, defined as severe discomfort that has continued for six months or more. That\u2019s more than 50 million people. Jon Kabat-Zinn has received international acclaim for his leading work in bringing the life-changing practices of meditation and mindfulness into the mainstream of medicine and society. In this inspiring podcast, Tami Simon speaks with Jon about his empowering new book,\u00a0Mindfulness Meditation for Pain Relief<\/i>, and how we can greatly improve our lives (and our entire world) by reframing the way we relate to our thoughts, our minds, and the sensations of our bodies.<\/p>\n
Listen in as they discuss the epidemic of chronic pain and the power of mindfulness to ease suffering of all kinds, the myth of the \u201cgood meditator,\u201d the body as the starting point for practice, exploring your \u201cemotionally freighted thoughts,\u201d our longing to be who we really are, working with the mind and learning to inhabit a space of embodied awareness, the refuge that is meditation practice, letting go of our stories, befriending the sensory field of what we call pain, the miracle of life on Earth, the Buddha\u2019s teaching on mindfulness as the direct path to liberation, surfing the waves of your own experience, unity within diversity and the arising of compassion, focusing on what\u2019s right instead of what\u2019s wrong, how we are all on a growth curve on life\u2019s journey, and more.<\/p>\n
Note: This episode originally aired on Sounds True One, where these special episodes of\u00a0Insights at the Edge<\/i>\u00a0are available to watch live on video and with exclusive access to Q&As with our guests. Learn more at\u00a0join.soundstrue.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n This episode is sponsored by BetterHelp. Listeners of Insights At The Edge get 10% off their first month at<\/p>\nwww.betterhelp.com\/soundstrue<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":24547,"template":"","meta":{"_expiration-date-status":"","_expiration-date":0,"_expiration-date-type":"","_expiration-date-categories":[],"_expiration-date-options":[]},"categories":[392,384,382],"tags":[170],"contributor":[416],"class_list":["post-24546","podcast","type-podcast","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health-and-healing","category-meditation","category-mindfulness","tag-insights-at-the-edge","contributor-jon-kabat-zinn"],"yoast_head":"\n