This meditation is a powerful technique for reducing the suffering associated with pain. Sometimes we cannot do anything about pain, it is resistant to medication and no matter what we try it remains stubborn and persistant.

However what we do have the option of doing is altering the way we perceive and react to pain, lessening the neural sensitivity and ridding ourselves of the built up stress and tension that pain inevitably causes.

Sometimes (not always) the body creates and maintains this stubborn pain when we have deep psychological pain that we are not addressing, it is only when we can return to a state of calm and stillness that the root causes of the pain will begin to emerge.

I wish you so well with this, I have suffered chronic pain myself and I know how hellish it can be. Please do not give up hope, everything is temporary, this too shall pass :)