Meditation can be better at  ____ pain than the best pain-relieving drugs.

A group of people who had meditated before took part in the study.

A report says meditation relieves 100% of all pain.

The study found a 40% reduction in pain.

Researchers administered pain to the study volunteers’ legs.

“We found a big effect - about a 40 percent reduction in pain  ____ and a 57 percent reduction in pain

unpleasantness.”

The meditators had their brains scanned before and after meditating.

The study said the pain-killer morphine reduced pain by 25%.

The technique focuses people’s attention on the source of the pain.

The study looked at a kind of meditation called “technique focused”.