{"id":42093,"date":"2018-06-19T15:21:36","date_gmt":"2018-06-19T20:21:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/?p=42093"},"modified":"2018-06-19T15:21:36","modified_gmt":"2018-06-19T20:21:36","slug":"meditation-techniques-for-chronic-pain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/archives\/42093","title":{"rendered":"meditation techniques for chronic pain"},"content":{"rendered":"Mett\u0101 (Pali) or maitr\u012b (Sanskrit) means benevolence, loving-kindness, friendliness, amity,  good will, and active interest in others. It is the first of the four sublime states (Brahmavih\u0101ras) and one of the ten p\u0101ram\u012bs of the Therav\u0101da school of Buddhism.\nThe cultivation of benevolence (mett\u0101 bh\u0101van\u0101) is a popular form of meditation in Buddhism. It is a part of the four immeasurables in Brahmavihara (divine abidings) meditation. Metta as ‘compassion meditation’ is often practiced in Asia by broadcast chanting, wherein monks chant for the laity.\nThe compassion and universal loving-kindness concept of Metta is discussed in the Metta Sutta of Buddhism, and is also found in the ancient and medieval texts of Hinduism and Jainism as Metta or Maitri.\nSmall sample studies on the potential of loving-kindness meditation approach on patients suggest potential benefits. However, peer reviews question the quality and sample size of these studies, then suggest caution.<p><a target='_blank' title='see more at wikipedia' href='https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mett%C4%81'>see more at wikipedia<\/a><\/p><br\/><iframe width='560' height='315' src='https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/'frameborder='0' allowfullscreen><\/iframe><p>Check More at <a href='http:\/\/personal.effectsofanxiety.net\/' title='check more'>http:\/\/personal.effectsofanxiety.net\/<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mett\u0101 (Pali) or maitr\u012b (Sanskrit) means benevolence, loving-kindness, friendliness, amity, good will, and active interest in others. It is the first of the four sublime states (Brahmavih\u0101ras) and one of the ten p\u0101ram\u012bs of the Therav\u0101da school of Buddhism. The cultivation of benevolence (mett\u0101 bh\u0101van\u0101) is a popular form of meditation in Buddhism. It is &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/archives\/42093\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">meditation techniques for chronic pain<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42093","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anxiety"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42093"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42093"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42093\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}