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You are not your pain: using mindfulness to relieve pain, reduce stress, and restore well-being---an eight-week program
Short Title: You are not your pain
Format: Book
Publication Date: Nov 30, 2014
Publisher: Flatiron Books
Place of Publication: New York
Pages: 236
Sources ID: 59311
Notes: "First published in Great Britain in 2013 by Piatkus under the title Mindfulness for health"--Title page verso Accompanying CD includes eight meditationsMachine generated contents note: -- Foreword by Mark Williams1. Every Moment Is a New Chance2. What You Resist Persists3. Introducing the Mindfulness Program4. Week One: Wild Horses5. Week Two: You Are Not Your Thoughts6. Week Three: Learning to Respond, Rather Than React7. Week Four: Watching Your Suffering and Stress Dissolve8. Week Five: The Pleasure of Small Things9. Week Six: "The Tender Gravity of Kindness"10. Week Seven: You Are Not Alone11. Week Eight: Life Lives Through You
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"Pain, suffering, and stress can be intolerable, but it doesn't have to be this way. You Are Not Your Pain reveals a simple set of mindfulness-based practices that you can incorporate into daily life to relieve chronic pain and the suffering and stress of illness. Clinical trials show that mindfulness meditation can be as effective as prescription painkillers and enhance the body's natural healing systems. It also significantly reduces the anxiety, stress, depression, irritability, exhaustion, and insomnia that often accompanies chronic pain and illness. Developed by two authors who have themselves struggled with the severe pain of serious injuries, this accessible book reveals the eight-week program that will quickly melt away your suffering. Taking just 10-20 minutes per day, it is a simple yet effective way to soothe some of the most common causes of pain such as back problems, arthritis, and migraine. It is also effective for people undergoing chemotherapy, or suffering from heart disease, diabetes, fibromyalgia, celiac disease, and many other causes of severe and chronic pain. Accompanied by a CD of12 meditations, readers will quickly learn to dissolve suffering by soothing the brain's pain networks. It will help you to live life fully once again"--