Me too. A year into this and I was aware of increasing anger, often taken out on sales clerks and phone representatives. A referral to a local MBSR teacher changed everything. Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction [the mothership?] was set up in 1979 by Jon Kabat-Zinn, PhD, out of the Univ. of Mass. Medical school, where it's still run today. over the years they have trained thousands of teachers. Here's its website, with a link to finding currently certified teachers throughout the North America and abroad at the bottom of the page, under the heading, "Find MBSR Programs Worldwide," at the bottom of the page: http://www.umassmed.edu/Content.aspx?id=41254 Many instructors, in turn, list their homepages,which are fascinating. Hint: if the instructor is a licensed mental health provider, health insurance will typically pick up a good part of the tuition.

The basic course runs for 8-weeks, meeting for 2 and 1/2 hour once a week, with a full-day retreat at the end. Each class is primarily oriented to 8 to 10 people in pain, and includes meditation, group discussion, and the very gentlest of yoga exercises, which is great for proprioceptive, something that CRPS specifically robs us of. Between classes there are daily "homework" exercises, largely guided meditations or yoga exercises under the guidance if CDs prepared by the individual instructor.

I came out of there with incredible momentum and became a student of Shinzen Young http://www.shinzen.org/ and am now starting to work specifically with people in the chronic pain community. And my MBSR teacher continues to be one of my closest friends, a little over 9 years later.

Mike