They also talked about the ventral medial prefrontal cortex, which includes several sub regions that work together to process how you relate to or place value on your experiences. And the more that these areas were decoupled or deactivated, the more pain relief the participant was able to report. Ultimately they say that mindfulness meditation, we provide a new method for pain treatment. Mindfulness meditation is also free and can be practiced anywhere. So it's very accessible and definitely could lead to non opioid based pain treatment or relief or healing