#366 How to Outsmart Your Pain | Christiane Wolf

Sit in meditation for a few minutes and you’re likely to experience pain, either physical or psychological. Hang around the meditation scene for very long, and you are likely to hear the expression, “Pain is inevitable; suffering is optional.” 

And that’s what this episode is all about -- boosting your pain tolerance through meditation. Because pain really is inevitable, but can you reduce your suffering through mindfulness and compassion? 

Christiane Wolf argues ‘yes’. She is a physician turned mindfulness and compassion teacher and teacher trainer. She is an authorized Buddhist teacher in the Insight (Vipassana) meditation tradition, teaching classes and retreats worldwide, and she’s also the author of the new book “Outsmart Your Pain”.

In this conversation, we talk about meditation techniques that offer us a better relationship to pain, how to work with the physicality of pain, the stories we tell ourselves about our pain, and seeing pain as an opportunity.

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• Website: https://www.christianewolf.com/
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• Book Mentioned:

• “Outsmart Your Pain”
• Other Resources Mentioned:
• Tara Brach
• Kristin Neff
• Shinzen Young
• Joseph Goldstein
• Jon Kabat-Zinn and Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction
• Jack Kornfield
• ‘The Crime of the Century’ documentary directed by Alex Gibney
  

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