What Can You Learn by Meditating with Pain?

What Can You Learn by Meditating with Pain?

Meditating when you’re having physical, mental, or emotional pain is an opportunity for discovery. I’m in my backyard meditating on a gorgeous, early autumn morning in New Orleans. Green and lush but not too hot or humid. The heat of the bayou in the summer has cooled...
How I’ve Lived with Chronic Pain for 30 Years

How I’ve Lived with Chronic Pain for 30 Years

Chronic pain has lived inside me every day and every year for the past 30 years. How it began and where it exists is less important than how I’ve lived with the affliction. Despite getting jumped by two different gangs, being born with a birth defect in one kidney,...