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Release Your Physical Pain - 5-Minute Daily Insight

by Giovanni Dienstmann

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Meditation
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Do you often experience physical pain? It could be as a result of an illness, accident, or part of the healing process that your body is going through right now. This meditation teaches you how to deal with pain. By learning how to relax inside the pain, and accept the sensations for what they are, you find yourself more free and at ease. 


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Transcript

Hello and welcome to The Daily Insight.

My name is Giovanni Dienstman.

I am a meditation teacher and the author of Practical Meditation.

Today's practice focuses on learning to manage and release physical pain.

May you have a restorative meditation.

Start by taking in a long,

Deep breath.

Now hold for some moments.

Feel the breathing filling every cell of your body with energy.

Then release fully.

Empty your lungs fully.

Feel the release.

Now closing your mouth and breathing normally.

Pain and suffering are different things.

Pain is a physical sensation,

But suffering is a mental reaction to that sensation.

Meditation teaches you to respond to the sensation of pain with relaxation and kindness,

Rather than aversion and agitation.

Now scan your body for sensations of pain.

Become aware where in your body the pain is residing.

If there is more than one sensation of pain,

Then focus on the strongest one.

Simply pay close attention to the sensation.

Be there with it.

Don't run away.

Study the sensations with a curious mind,

A neutral mind,

And see what you can learn about it.

Continue to be aware of the sensations of pain in your body.

And consciously breathe through them.

Imagine that you're breathing in through that body part,

And also breathing out through that body part.

With every inhalation,

Visualize a soothing light spreading through the whole pain area.

It brings relief.

With every exhalation,

You consciously let go of the pain.

Release the pain a little bit more,

With every exhalation.

Do that for a few moments.

This short exercise introduced you to a mindful way of dealing with physical pain.

I encourage you to listen to the longer version of today's insight,

So you'll learn more tools to deal with pain.

And please share with us in the comments,

How did your experience of pain changed after this meditation?

Take care.

Meet your Teacher

Giovanni DienstmannCairns QLD, Australia

4.7 (624)

Recent Reviews

Constance

November 29, 2025

This meditation does help with pain! I have severe pain in my back from 12 Compression fractures in my spine. I tried the breathing technique while I was having pain & it actually helped calm my body which in turn released some of the pain. Thank you for this meditation teacher!! Hope to listen to more meditations about pain. Where do I go to listen to the full version? Thanks!! 🙏💛🙏

Elke

November 6, 2025

Thank you so much for this short strong sequenz about pain. Breathing through the pain makes it less strong makes it filled with this light and so it's no longer "only" pain but a mixture of pain and light. This gives me release!

Melissa

September 7, 2025

This really helped. I was surprised that this brief guidance had such an impact, but my pain lessened - my experience of the pain was not so acute, and I was able to drift to sleep. Thank you!

Jane

April 20, 2025

Exactly what I was looking for; gentle and brief support for breathing through pain. Thank you.

Hope

January 6, 2025

Thank you for this short, yet powerful meditation.

Lynne

September 12, 2024

This meditation was helpful when I released tension around some pain and forgot about the suffering 🕊

G

May 16, 2024

This worked enough in this short meditation that I will definitely try the longer version. Namaste 🙏

Robin

January 12, 2024

Calming and relieving. I will look into the longer version to see if it continues to help with my PsA symptoms and pain. Thank you for this course. I am grateful.

Sloth

August 14, 2023

Powerful words that mean so much. Your voice is soothing and calming. I like the way you pace your sentences. Thank you for sharing this meditation!🙂

Josephine

July 20, 2023

🙏😌🪷Very nice. This helped me to sit in the awareness of my physical pain and although I did like this, it was still a fragile but gentle space to be at this time. It left me in wonder does it change with this practice? I did enjoy this. Namaste

Lynore

June 4, 2023

The meditation was wonderful, it significantly reduced my pain. Thank you.

Donna

May 14, 2023

I have arthritis and recognize pain, accept it as information, do what I can about it: exercise, stretch, relax, apply topicals, or, if required, take an aspirin or call a doctor! After doing what I can, I move on with my day. There’s no point being miserable about it! Thanks for you practice, Giovanni! Donna

Suzanne

April 15, 2023

I did it 3x to release the ongoing pain I’ve been suffering since starting physiotherapy. Definitely removed the pain, as I’m an experienced meditator……loved it. No pain.

Breeze

March 18, 2023

Thank you for this. My knee has relaxed & I am continuing to breathe through it. It is respinding to my breath. Thank you.

Darrell

February 11, 2023

Namaste Giovanni 🙏I’ll return again and again to your guidance, A very effective tool in living with chronic pain. Many blessings my friend ✌️💞

Smitha

January 19, 2023

Excellent short meditation to reduce pain - thank you 😊🙏

Jane

November 21, 2022

Wonderful 🎇 I will look for the longer version. Where can I find it? I didn’t see it on Insight Timer. Thank you.

Kylie

October 16, 2022

I was aware of the pain yet realising I don’t need to be attached to it 🙏🏻

Michele

May 11, 2022

I’ve just been diagnosed with psoriatic arthritis and have had so much pain lately. This meditation really helped me to sit with it and begin to ease it instead of running from it and fearing it. Thank you

Hannah

May 1, 2022

Compassionate voice and message. I feel lighter now. Still some discomfort but more stillness. Thank you.

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