13 September 2015

#177. Mindfulness For Health: A Practical Guide To Relieving Pain, Reducing Stress And Restoring Wellbeing by Vidymala Burch and Danny Penman


Title:
Mindfulness For Health: A Practical Guide To Relieving Pain, Reducing Stress and Restoring Wellbeing
Author:
Vidymala Burch and Danny Penman
Genre:
Meditation/Self-help/Health
Synopsis:
A guide to using meditation/mindfulness to reduce the level of discomfort experienced as a result of chronic pain of all sorts.
Verdict:
The anecdotes and advice resonated with some of my worst experiences and was helpful in helping me get my head around some stress management techniques.
It differentiates between primary pain (the pain caused by your condition/injury) and secondary pain (a pain that is created by your physical and mental reaction to the primary pain), and concentrates on guiding the reader in ways to reduce secondary pain which may in turn have an effect on the level of primary pain.
Pages:
233
Read:
September 2015

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