Pain and Resilience
Volunteers experience excruciating pain while their brain responses are monitored. Non-meditators show immediate activation in the pain matrix at the sound of a tone, while advanced meditators display no activation until the pain begins, indicating a neural signature of resilience. Despite rating the pain intensity similarly, meditators find the experience significantly less distressing, highlighting the power of mindfulness in pain perception.In this clip
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