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A Natural Choice: How Mindfulness Can Help You Manage Pain—without Drugs

Ram Rao Ph.D.

on September 04, 2020

benefits of yoga and mindfulness to help people manage and reduce pain without the use of drugs

Pain is defined as “an unpleasant sensory and emotional experience associated with actual or potential tissue damage” and serves as the body’s inherent protective mechanism to:

Motivate the individual to pull out from a damaging situation and prevent further damage to the tissue
Allow the damaged tissue to rest and begin the healing process.
Avoid similar encounters

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