Mindfulness for Health: A Practical Guide to Relieving Pain, Reducing Stress and Restoring Wellbeing
This book reveals a series of simple practices that you can incorporate into your daily life to relieve chronic pain and the suffering and stress of illness.
From the back cover
Pain, suffering, and stress can be intolerable – but it doesn’t have to be this way.
Mindfulness for Health reveals a set of simple practices that you can incorporate into daily life to relieve chronic pain, suffering and stress. Clinical trials show that mindfulness meditation is at least as effective as the most commonly prescribed painkillers and can be more powerful than morphine. Mindfulness can also significantly reduce the anxiety, depression, irritability, exhaustion and insomnia that can arise from chronic pain and illness.
Mindfulness for Health is based on a unique meditation programme developed by Vidyamala Burch to help her cope with the severe pain of a spinal injury. The Breathworks Centre founded by Vidyamala – and its affiliates around the world – have helped thousands of people cope with pain, illness and stress. Its pioneering approach is praised by Professor Mark Williams of Oxford University, Jon Kabat Zinn, and Professor Lance McCraken of King’s College London.
The eight week programme at the heart of this book takes just 10-20 minutes per day. You’ll be surprised by how quickly your suffering melts away, leaving behind a deep-seated love of life.
Reviews
“A beautiful and compassionate book, Mindfulness for Health will put you back in touch with the extraordinary person you already are.”
Professor Mark Williams, University of Oxford
This book provides an extremely effective and elegant mind-body approach to healing . . . Highly recommended.”
Dr Jon Kabat-Zinn
“Meeting pain with the “tender gravity of kindness” is courageous and transformative. Vidyamala Burch and Danny Penman “walk the talk”; they invite people suffering pain to reclaim their lives through this accessible, personal, wise and eminently commonsensical guide.”
