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Dr. Shauna Shapiro - Activate Your Superpowers: Mindfulness, Self Compassion, & Neuroplasticity

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How Does Mindfulness Help You Cope With Chronic Pain?

You talk a lot about mindfulness being transformative, and in your life, it was there for you when you hit rock bottom. What is it about mindfulness a what made you believe that mindfulness tools would help you heal? And it sounds like you assign a lot of weight to mindfulness helping you heal, verses maybe time passing. So a couple of things. One, i really don't believe that time passing heals things. I think how you relate to the pain or the trama, or whatever expanse you've had, is what's essential. But mindfulmess practice significantly decreases pain. In those patients where they said it actually didn't reduce my pain, it significantly increased their ability to function in

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