You Are Not Your Pain Using Mindfulness to Relieve Pain, Reduce Stress, and Restore Well-Being---An Eight-Week Program

by Burch, Vidyamala; Penman, Danny

• ISBN13: 9781250052674
• ISBN10: 125005267X
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2015-01-06
• Publisher: Flatiron Books

Summary

Developed by two authors, Vidyamala Burch and Danny Penman who themselves have struggled with severe pain after sustaining serious injuries, You Are Not Your Pain reveals a simple eight-week program of mindfulness-based practices that will melt away your suffering. Accompanied by a CD to guide you, the eight meditations in this book take just ten to twenty minutes per day and have been shown to be as effective as prescription painkillers to soothe some of the most common causes of pain. These mindfulness-based practices soothe the brain's pain networks, while also significantly reducing the anxiety, stress, exhaustion, irritability, and depression that often accompanies chronic pain and illness.
Whether you experience back pain, arthritis, or migraines, are suffering from fibromyalgia, celiac disease, or undergoing chemotherapy, you will quickly learn to manage your pain and live life fully once again.

Author Biography

VIDYAMALA BURCH is founder and codirector of Breathworks, an organization offering mindfulness-based and compassion-based approaches to living well with chronic pain, illness, and stress. There are Breathworks teachers in over 15 countries. She is the author of Living Well with Pain and Illness which is based on her acclaimed Breathworks program.

DANNY PENMAN, PhD, is an award-winning journalist and author who has worked for the BBC, The Independent, and writes for the London Daily Mail. He is coauthor of the bestselling Mindfulness: An Eight-Week Plan for Finding Peace in a Frantic World.

 

 

Table of Contents

Foreword by Mark Williams

1. Every Moment Is a New Chance

2. What You Resist Persists

3. Introducing the Mindfulness Program

4. Week One: Wild Horses

5. Week Two: You Are Not Your Thoughts

6. Week Three: Learning to Respond, Rather Than React

7. Week Four: Watching Your Suffering and Stress Dissolve

8. Week Five: The Pleasure of Small Things

9. Week Six: "The Tender Gravity of Kindness"

10. Week Seven: You Are Not Alone

11. Week Eight: Life Lives Through You