Turning Suffering Inside Out
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| Rating | : | 4.84 (579 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1570628173 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 272 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2018-01-14 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
When we keep pain at bay, we keep pleasure at bay, too. The two are interdependent, and our ability to experience each is totally dependent on our understanding of the other. Darlene Cohen discovered the secret to finding happiness in the midst of debilitating pain. Expand your awareness to a hundred things, however, and your pain is only a hundredth of your awareness. Cohen, who has suffered from rheumatoid arthritis for eighteen years, was hobbling painfully to her local Zen center one day, when she made a discovery that changed her life: if she focused on the foot that was in the air rather than the one that was hitting the pavement, her stamina increased enormously. It was the beginning of a completely different approach to the crippling pain that had beset her for so long. As she demonstrates here, this approach can be expanded to all types of pain: physical, psychological, and spiritual. This book was published in hardcover under the title Finding a Joyful Life in the Heart of Pain. If your pain is one of the ten things you are aware of, then it constitutes a tenth of your total awareness. She shares her knowledge in her popular workshops and now in this book. Cohen—a certified massage and movement therapist and Zen teacher—proposes a
. Darlene Cohen is a Zen teacher who counsels chronic pain clients and gives arthritis workshops, classes, lectures, and pain seminars in private practice and at medical facilities and meditation centers throughout the San Francisco Bay Area, as well as Spokane, Washington, and Evanston, Illinois. She is author of Arthritis: Stop Suffering, Start Moving—Everyday Exercises for Body and Mind
laney said No way. I have chronic pain and I'm desperate for help. I DO have all kinds of hobbies. I have many positive thoughts and it is just not true that this helps my pain what so ever. If it was just that easy we would all be cured. POSITIVE thinking truly only goes so far I can no longer do 99 percent of my hobbi. If You Are Suffering Chronic Pain - this is your book I read this book several years ago when I sustained a permanent injury to my SI joint. I also have nerve damage there, and in my foot. Some days it really sucks.This book is an excellent approach to managing pain and health issues that seem unmanagable - that feel like they have stolen your life and t. "Brilliant" according to Joyce. Cohen brings to Buddhism the feminine quality of a personal ordinary approach that deepens my understanding of its wisdom. For example, koans have always been mysterious to me. Cohen brings them down to earth. She created a personal koan as an aid to quit smoking. She repeatedly asked herself the ques
How do we live through catastrophic situations such as Cohen's without being destroyed? For starters, don't go numb, suggests Cohen, a Zen teacher who offers pain seminars in medical facilities and meditation centers along the West Coast. "I became isolated from everyone I knew by my pain and fear and ultimately even by the consuming effort I had to make to do any little thing--like get up from a chair, fix a cup of tea," she writes. Through storytelling, attitude adjustments, meditation exercises, and straight-from-the-heart advice, Cohen guides readers into a more alive and joyful life, even in the midst of pain. For the past 20 years author Darlene Cohen has had rheumatoid arthr