People who engage in Zen meditation do feel pain, new research reveals, but they don't think about it as much.
The observation could have a bearing on the treatment of chronic pain among patients struggling with the impact of conditions such as arthritis and back pain.
Pierre Rainville, a researcher at the University of Montreal, and his colleagues report their findings in the journal Pain.
"Our previous research found that Zen meditators have lower pain sensitivity," said senior author Rainville in a news release from the journal. "The aim of the current study was to determine how they are achieving this."
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