Mindfulness & Pain and Illness
Pain and Illness are among the most challenging experiences we can have, and if they’re chronic it means that, for all their efforts, the doctors don’t have a way to make them go away right now. We’re left with an experience that’s unpleasant and challenging. However, this is not all that’s happening. In her book, Living Well With Chronic Pain and Illness, Vidyamala Burch, the founder of Breathworks distinguishes two kinds of suffering: Firstly there are the actual unpleasant sensations in the body in any given moment — this ‘is primarysuffering’....
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