Ooooh, I just have to sound off about one of my pet peeves. I am well acquainted with meditation, have used it in the past and present, and know all about the brain wave changes. It has worked for me in the past for acute pain and mild pain. but give me a break! When you have pain at the 8-10 level, 24/7, it just can't handle it. Melody, at your next meeting, ask that doctor how she would like to undergo 12 hours of abdominal surgery with no anesthesia. Tell her that she could just meditate through it. I am sorry, but I don't think that people who say things like she did have any comprehension of the intensity of pain that some of us have, and it is very cruel to imply that if we would just put a little effort and self-discipline into it that we could control it all with our minds. It so diminishes the terrible suffering that many of us have.

Okay, so much for that rant. The info you got at that meeting was very interesting, Melody, and certainly generated a lot more information and sharing here! I hope you go again! Thank you so much for going and sharing that with us! It's a good thing that I do not live in NYC, though, or I would have ripped her face off. And normally I am just a sweet little Southern church lady. Boy, I would've liked to have been there if MrsD could have gone, too, though.