Reduce Painful Diabetic Neuropathy with Mindfulness

Reduce Painful Diabetic Neuropathy with Mindfulness   By John M. de Castro, Ph.D.   “Meditation techniques can help people struggling with neuropathy symptoms live through their pain. It can help to lower stress, improve your coping skills, and decrease your pain intensity. Taking a mind-body approach is a noninvasive technique that provides you with more control over your […]

Mindfulness and Hypnosis are Very Different

Mindfulness and Hypnosis are Very Different   By John M. de Castro, Ph.D.   “Mindfulness meditation has already achieved a level of credibility, popularity and acceptance by public and professional communities that the fields of hetero-hypnosis and self-hypnosis can currently only hope to aspire towards.” – Adam Eason   On the surface there would appear […]

Improve the Psychological State of Patients with Rheumatoid Arthritis with Mindfulness

  By John M. de Castro, Ph.D.   “Drugs are effective for rheumatoid arthritis, but they don’t affect the stress pathways that are so fundamental to the condition. Stress symptoms activate inflammation and even heighten the perception of pain. “A mindfulness-based intervention, which targets the multiple components of the body’s stress response, can decrease overall pain severity […]

Reduce Pain with Mindfulness

Reduce Pain with Mindfulness   By John M. de Castro, Ph.D.   “Meditation (which is the ‘formal’ practice of mindfulness) actually changes the way the mind perceives pain (2) so that it’s more bearable. It is a natural and effective way to ease physical pain.” – Melli O’Brien   We all have to deal with pain. It’s inevitable, […]