Product Description
The newest treatment for pain is one of the oldest, most effective strategies for pain-free living: meditation. With Break Through Pain, meditation expert Shinzen Young teaches you how to retrain your relationship to pain through traditional meditation practices. Drawing from thirty years of results in the field, this respected teacher offers the essential techniques that have proven successful at painmanagement centers around the country. Break Through Pain adapts the core principles of mindfulness training to a practical process that can treat even extreme, chronic pain effectively, possibly reducing the need for drugs or surgery. Step-by-step techniques taught in plain language show how to overcome internal resistance-the key to transforming physical pain into a flow of pure energy. Includes Shinzen's five most effective meditations for pain.

CUSTOMER REVIEWS (Average Customer Rating: 4.5 based on 7 reviews)

A truly transformative resource for living with pain by Margarett A. Powell (Sacramento CA USA)

5 Stars
September 02, 2009
If you have chronic or acute pain, I recommend this book and CD on using mindful meditation to address pain. It's a short book of less than 100 pages, but every word counts! I've reread each section many times, and the entire book a couple of times each year. And the CD is really helpful with meditation. I've always believed getting over pain meant pushing the pain away as though it were a foreign object. But when the pain isn't going to go away, learning to accept it as a part of me was the first step to reducing the pain level. When nothing else has helped -- even drugs -- the skills I learned from this book have worked to help me manage my pain, and in other ways of my life as well. So, if you're open to trying a gentle, inner-directed approach to managing pain -- or possibly stopping your pain altogether, I urge you to read this book. You'll be glad you did.

Good material for those in pain.... by Patrick D. Goonan (Pleasanton, CA)

4 Stars
June 24, 2007
Shinzen Young is a meditation teacher who has been around for a long time. Much of his work is in the area of transforming emotions and pain. This combination book and CD is useful for those who want to get more of a feeling of control around pain. Specifically, this book teaches you the relationship between attention and pain, softening around pain and having a different experience of it through training the mind to hold it differently. While it won't take the place of morphine, it will certainly help people in pain to live with it more easily. It will also help them to reduce their anxiety around pain, which aggravates the subjective experience of pain. I am no stranger to pain having gone through a back, neck and wrist surgery. I teach meditation myself and I have graduate education in biology, biochemistry and psychology. I feel I am in a good position to judge the merits of the book and the book certainly has many merits as does the CDs. If you are interested in an introduction to several types of meditation, you might also like The Beginner's Guide to Meditation. If you are quite serious about meditation, you can look at a variety of references on my listmania lists which appear on my profile.

disappointed by Docta Puella (Southwest, USA)

1 Stars
July 02, 2006
The 1997 Sounds True cassette tape version is so much better than this watered-down, tired-sounding CD and book. After using the taped version, which has four longish guided meditations and is so inspiring and helpful, the very brief guidance for the meditations on the CD version gives the impression that the author became bored or burnt out with teaching. I will continue to use the the cassette tapes and will throw out the more recent CD and book.

I love this book by K.O. (Orlando, FL)

5 Stars
March 28, 2006
Shinzen's meditations on pain have changed my life. I deal with pain on a regular basis and I use Shinzen's meditations all the time. I love this book so much I have bought many copies to give away as gifts. I HIGHLY RECOMMEND THIS BOOK FOR ANYONE DEALING WITH PAIN.

equinimity is key.

5 Stars
October 08, 2005
Here pain is synonymous with any uncomfortable body sensation, such as "anger, fear, sadness, embarrassment, impatience, guilt, confusion, jealousy...". If you are still in your body, then you will have these sensations and need to manange it. The method consists of precisely localizing the pain in the body, have equinimity (openess, allowing) the pain, and noting how/where/when the pain changes.

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