I like this book. It outlines different ways of thinking about chronic pain. I like it because the author acknowledges that these techniques can be parctices alongside mainstream drugs used to treat pain. "People sometimes think they can't practise mindfullness and take painkillers, tranquillisers, antidepressants and so on, as they affect the mind. In my view there's no inherent confilict. Some drugs do cloud the mind, but severe pain clouds it as well". As with any of these books, reading them is easy, adopting the methods in your real life is much harder!

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Product Description

'I admire Vidyamala Burch tremendously. Her approach could save your life - and give iot back to you'. Jon Kabat-Zinn, bestselling author of FULL CATASTROPHE LIVING

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Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #25484 in Books
• Published on: 2008-11-06
• Original language: English
• Dimensions: 9.25" h x .67" w x 7.28" l, 1.07 pounds
• Binding: Paperback
• 256 pages

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`The cultivation of mindfulness can make a profound difference in how we relate to pain and whether even chronic pain conditions need to turn into endless suffering and misery. In this book, Vidyamala makes the practice of befriending your experience through mindfulness, however unpleasant or pleasant it may be, both commonsensical and compelling. I admire her tremendously. This is a beautiful and very important book. It could save your life - and give it back to you.'
--Jon Kabat-Zinn, author of Full Catastrophe Living and Coming to Our Senses

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`This is a wonderful work, one of those books where you know within a few pages that it is going to be worth stopping everything else in order to make time to read it. The book is a moving and compelling invitation to bring a radically new way of working with the fact of our pain. It is a book of enormous tenderness and honesty. Here is wise guidance on how we can move beyond our natural resistance to our pain to a willingness to be with it, and how we can live with greater ease by turning towards what we most fear about our pain and suffering.'
Mark Williams, co-author of The Mindful Way Through Depression, and Professor of Clinical Psychology and Wellcome Principal Research Fellow, University of Oxford,

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`Vidyamala Burch has practiced mindfulness for many years, as well as applying the practice to the relief of physical suffering, both her own and that of other people. She has now embodied the fruits of her extensive experience in a very readable and useful book. I hope that Living Well with Pain and Illness will have a wide circulation, in a world where, despite all our progress, there is still so much suffering, some of it unnecessary.'
Urgyen Sangharakshita