**Pain, suffering, and stress can be intolerable, but it doesn't have to
be this way. You Are Not Your Pain reveals a simple set of
mindfulness-based practices that you can incorporate into your daily
life to relieve chronic pain and the suffering and stress of illness.
**
Clinical trials show that mindfulness meditation can be as effective as
prescription painkillers and can enhance the body's natural healing
systems, while also significantly reducing anxiety, depression,
irritability, exhaustion, and insomnia--all symptoms that can arise from
chronic pain and illness.
Developed by two authors who themselves have struggled with severe pain
due to serious injuries, this accessible book reveals the eight-week
program that will quickly melt away your suffering and help you cope
with your pain. Taking up just 10-20 minutes per day, this is a simple
yet effective way to soothe some of the common causes of pain like back
problems, arthritis, migraine, and diabetes, but can also be effective
for people undergoing chemotherapy, people with heart disease,
fibromyalgia, celiac disease, and much more.
Accompanied by a CD with 8 meditations, listeners will be able to
identify and focus on secondary suffering which is brought about when
the mind becomes fixated on the anxiety of pain, and begins to
anticipate it, thereby making suffering worse. Using the meditations and
techniques within the book, readers will learn to breathe in to their
pain and dissolve suffering by soothing the brain's pain networks and
leaving you able to live life fully again.
