Mindful meditation keeps chronic back pain at bay

Zee Media Bureau/Sumit Channa

New Delhi: Did you ever think that a session of mindfulness meditation can provide instant relief from chronic low back pain? Yes it's absolutely true.

Without relying on any painkiller, the practice of mindfulness meditation can keep the chronic back pain far away.

Researchers claim that quieting the mind may prove as a non-drug therapy that will be helpful in decreasing chronic low back pain.

They claim that training the pain to respond differently to pain signals may be highly effective in alleviating it and last longer rather than going for the traditional medication and other treatments.

Researchers further believe that there are some chronic physical ailments that cannot be managed by medication alone and the acceptance of the mind-body connection is must.