Mindfulness can change the perception of pain. Everyone's experience, tolerance of, and reactivity to pain, is unique. There is one common thread, though, that I've seen across the board that increases pain, and decreases our ability to manage it: Stress. The stress response unilaterally effects each individual in the same manner: Pain increases. While this appears an obvious comment, many times in the middle of the stressful event, people don't realize the effect that stre