You are not your pain : using mindfulness to relieve pain, reduce stress, and restore well-being---an eight-week program / Vidyamala Burch and Danny Penman.
Edition:
First U.S. edition.
Publisher:
Flatiron Books,
Copyright Date:
2015
Description:
xv, 236 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm + 1 CD (4 3/4 in.)
"First published in Great Britain in 2013 by Piatkus under the title Mindfulness for health"--Title page verso. Accompanying CD includes eight meditations. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Every moment is a new chance -- What you resist persists -- Introducing the mindfulness program -- Week one: wild horses -- Week two: you are not your thoughts -- Week three: learning to respond, rather than react -- Week four: watching your suffering and stress dissolve -- Week five: the pleasure of small things -- Week six: "the tender gravity of kindness" -- Week seven: you are not alone -- Week eight: life lives through you.
Summary:
"Pain, suffering, and stress can be intolerable, but it doesn't have to be this way. [This book presents a] set of mindfulness-based practices that you can incorporate into daily life to relieve chronic pain and the suffering and stress of illness"-- Provided by publisher.
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