Meehae Song attended a 6 day Mindfulness Retreat with Zen Master Thich Nhat Hahn and the monks and nuns at Deer Park Monastery in Escondido, CA. She practiced sitting and walking meditation daily starting at 5:30AM and also attended sessions for deep relaxation and community working meditation. Mindfulness starts with each breath and she is trying to bring this into her daily life and as she works with leading chronic pain workshops and develops VR applications for chronic pain.
PhD Student and research member, Tyler Fox, presented his paper Material Possthumanism: (Re)Configurations of Practice at Virtual Futures 2.0, a revival of the cult conference in the UK. Featuring members from the original Virtual Futures, such as performance artist Stelarc, science fiction author Pat Cadigan, and computer scientist Kevin Warwick, the conference focused on how digital technologies impact our lives and shape our futures, as well as what has turned out differently from the expectations from the original Virtual Futures conferences in the mid-90s. Tylers paper focused on the intersections of bioart and science and was part of the Future Concerns of Bio-Technology panel.
Chronic pain sufferers who learn to dwell less on their ailments may sleep better and experience less day-to-day pain, according to results of research conducted on people with chronic face and jaw pain.
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David Thompson secondary student Yvonne Hao’s mother has suffered from a painful condition of
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Chronic migraine sufferers saw significant pain relief after four weeks of electrical brain stimulation in the part of the brain responsible for voluntary movement, the motor cortex, according to a new study.
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Canada needs a national pain strategy