Study: Meditation can help ease pain - ArtsLife - TheChronicleHerald.ca

TORONTO — Meditation can significantly reduce the intensity and
perception of pain — and the effects aren’t just in a person’s mind,
researchers have found.

In a study of volunteers trained to perform a type of meditation
called focused attention, special MRI scans showed that areas of the
brain typically activated by pain were altered — sometimes dramatically —
while subjects engaged in the thought-controlling exercise.