body scan meditation

Training to be a doctor is brutal. One weekend as a junior doctor, I was running between wards, people dying everywhere, my body like lead. I pushed through. Two weeks later, I couldn’t get out of bed.

This was the pattern I couldn’t see: Discomfort shows up → I avoid it → It gets louder → I push harder → My body forces me to stop.

In Week 4 of our mindfulness series, Dr. Ed Rainbow shares his personal experience with experiential avoidance—the exhausting struggle to push away pain that paradoxically creates more suffering.

Learn the concept of the second arrow: the pain that happens (first arrow) versus the tension you add around it (second arrow, often worse). Discover why what we resist persists.

Includes a 10-minute body scan meditation for working with difficult sensations, plus a 3-minute emergency reset practice and the RAIN technique.