What Is Mindfulness?

This action is to draw one’s attention to internal and external experiences that are happening in the present moment. Mindfulness is a unique tool for overcoming the mental struggles caused by pain and reducing mobility. We live in an incredibly busy world.

The pace of life is often frantic, our minds are always busy, and we’re always doing something. And this is an extraordinary thing, right? We’re talking about our mind. The mind, our most valuable and precious resource, through which we experience every single moment of our life. The mind that we rely upon to be happy, content, emotionally stable as individuals, and at the same time, to be kind and thoughtful and considerate in our relationships with others. This is the same mind that we depend upon to be focused, creative, spontaneous, and to perform at our very best in everything that we do. And yet, we don’t take any time out to look after it.

The result, of course, is that we get stressed. You know, the mind whizzes away like a washing machine going around and round, lots of difficult, confusing emotions, and we don’t really know how to deal with that. And the sad fact is that we are so distracted that we’re no longer present in the world in which we live. We miss out on the things that are most important to us, and the crazy thing is that everybody just assumes, that’s the way life is, so we’ve just kind of got to get on with it. That’s really not how it has to be. We all deal with stress in different ways. Some people will bury themselves in work, grateful for the distraction. Others will turn to their friends, their family, looking for support. Some people hit the bottom, start taking medication.

Mindfulness teaches us to appreciate more, to understand the present moment. This means not getting lost in thought, not being distracted, not being overwhelmed by difficult feelings, but instead learning how to be here and now, how to be careful, how to be present.

The present moment is so underrated. It sounds so ordinary, and yet we spend so little time in the present moment that it’s anything but ordinary. There was a research paper that came out of Harvard, just recently, that said on average, our minds are lost in thought almost 47 percent of the time. 47 percent. At the same time, this sort of constant mind-wandering is also a direct cause of unhappiness.

And the beauty of it is that even though it need only take about 10 minutes a day, it impacts our entire life. But we need to know how to do it. We need an exercise. We need a framework to learn how to be more mindful. That’s essentially what meditation is. It’s familiarizing ourselves with the present moment. But we also need to know how to approach it in the right way to get the best from it. And that’s what these are for, in case you’ve been wondering, because most people assume that meditation is all about stopping thoughts, getting rid of emotions, somehow controlling the mind, but actually it’s quite different from that. It’s more about stepping back, sort of seeing the thought clearly, witnessing it coming and going, emotions coming and going without judgment, but with a relaxed, focused mind.

Well, whatever it is, meditation offers the opportunity, the potential to step back and to get a different perspective, to see that things aren’t always as they appear. We can’t change every little thing that happens to us in life, but we can change the way that we experience it. That’s the potential of meditation, of mindfulness. You don’t have to burn any incense, and you definitely don’t have to sit on the floor. All you need to do is to take 10 minutes out a day to step back, to familiarize yourself with the present moment so that you get to experience a greater sense of focus, calm and clarity in your life.

Why Can Mindfulness Come to Mend Me’s Help?

A major reason for putting off surgery or treat can be summed up in one word: fear. Fear of the unknown. Fear of pain. Fear of recovery. Fear of being vulnerable. For some, this fear can be crippling, causing additional stress and anxiety in the months, weeks, and days leading up to the procedure. What candidates often don’t realize is that this untampered fear or anxiety can actually negatively affect the outcome of surgery. In saying this, your mind is your biggest ally going into surgery. Your body and mind are very powerful machines–resilient and built for healing.

Can Stress and Anxiety Negatively Affect Your Surgery?

Not everyone is comfortable blindly succumbing to the “power of their mind,” the “law of attraction,” or other abstract metaphysical belief systems. For this reason, we will keep our mindfulness information as scientific and relevant to your surgery as possible. Before diving, it is important to consider the negative effects of stress and anxiety on prognosis, surgical outcomes, and postoperative recovery.

For example, In a study conducted by the Journal of Arthroplasty, the reported findings were that depression or anxiety in patients is a predictor for complications after joint replacement. In fact, the cost of a total knee replacement for a patient with measurable anxiety or depression was $3420 higher than those without. The reason being, patients going into surgery with anxiety or depression often required additional care, longer rehab, and have more complications in recovery.

Why Should We Practice Mindfulness Before, During, and After Surgery?

Improving mindfulness allows you to focus more on the positives like a full life, but it can also reduce the anxiety of moving around that is caused by chronic pain. One unfortunate side effect of persistent pain is that even after surgery to solve the problem, persistent anxiety can slow and rehabilitate. The use of “mindfulness”, also known as “silent consciousness”, can now be described. Teach yourself to stay in the moment and not get caught up in anxiety and fear-based thoughts, it relieves anxiety and stress. As Can J Psychiatry researchers found, “mindfulness interventions increase tolerance for negative effects and improve well-being.”

Here’s why mindfulness meditation before surgery is important:

• Mindfulness teaches you how you can prevent unnecessary pain and suffer from continuing to escape discomfort and pain.
• This is a proven way to deal with pain and even increase pain tolerance.
• You’ll learn to let go of old pain.
• Mindfulness will help you better understand the power of your mind and body to heal. This can improve your comfort by doing anticipation and rehabilitation exercises.
• People who undergo hip or knee replacement surgery with reduced anxiety or depression have better results and fewer complications.
• You’ll have a new set of tools to deal with anxiety and negative experiences.
• Quitting stress, fear and anxiety mean better physical and mental health in the future.

How Can Mindfulness Be Used?

We have tried to read the book by Oli Doyle, author of Mindfulness Plain and Simple, to provide you with a series of guided mindfulness meditations specifically for those who have planned surgery. This prepares your body, relieves the extra fear or anxiety, and you can be better for recovery.

On the other hand, we connect care teams, reduce costs and improve results. Mend Me will be used by thousands of patients to treat musculoskeletal pain and immobility from home. Mend Me connects care teams and patients while providing the most efficient care, reducing costs.

How to Have Less Physical Therapy

Mend Me will have reduced the number of sessions required for outpatient physiotherapy by an average of 22%. We control musculoskeletal costs and guide patients to full recovery:

• Provide connected care with our organizational tools.
• Advance clinical protocols with our evolution technology.
• Engage your members with user-friendly apps.

We Are Responsible For Improving Patients

Mend Me puts you in charge of your own destiny while encouraging daily lessons that are customized, fun, and entertaining.

Eliminating the Burden of Pain and Immobility

At Mend Me, we want to reduce the effects of pain and inactivity on a scale. Mend Me is a recovery system that helps people optimize for surgery and achieve the root cause of pain and immobility. Mend Me digital accessible solution helps you to further improve with the devices you already have and safely from home. At $ 190 billion a year, Musculoskeletal Disorders (MSDs) account for 10% of all health care costs in Canada – most of all cancers. For employers, MSD accounts for approximately 16% of total health care budgets. Injured patients and workers using Mend Me’s Perhab and ReHab digital programs are active participants in their health, experience less recovery, have fewer complications, and return-to-work faster.