3.0 Research Design and Methods This pilot experimental study is designed as a randomized, education controlled clinical trial of mindfulness meditation for CLBP. A sample of 80 older adults 65 years of age and older will be recruited from a chronic pain clinic, general medicine research registry, posted flyers, and newspaper advertisements over an 18-month period. Eligibility will be determined by self-report from a checklist reviewed with potential participants over the phone. Pre-intervention study participants will be consented and study measures obtained. After consent and baseline measures, participants will be randomized using a simple randomization process with no stratification using a software generated randomization plan. After randomization, participants in the intervention group will receive the intervention of eight weekly 90-minute mindfulness meditation sessions. Controls will receive an 8-week health education program. Subject evaluation and each program will occur at the University of Pittsburgh Center for Research on Health Care (CRHC) which has subject examination areas as well as a classroom and a nearby parking structure. Subjects will be assessed weekly over the telephone during the intervention or health education program with a subset of measures administered at baseline. Immediately post-intervention or education program the complete set of measures will be administered again to participants and controls. Subjects will be assessed monthly by telephone for five months after completion of the MBSR or health education program with the same subset of baseline measures. Six months after the intervention is completed, participants will be asked to return to the CRHC and complete the entire set of measures a third time and any mindfulness meditation the intervention group continues to do at home will be quantified.