LIVING WELL WITH PAIN AND ILLNESS

Book ID/图书代码： 07980007B17997

English Summary/英文概要： LIVING WELL WITH PAIN AND ILLNESS is a practical guide to living with and managing chronic pain through the principle of mindfulness. By developing a calm awareness of your body and your pain, you can learn to let go of the frustration and suffering that you associate the pain with, and the pain will reduce.Vidyamala Burch uses easy-to follow breathing techniques and powerful mindfulness meditations which teach you how to live in the present moment. LIVING WELL WITH PAIN AND ILLNESS includes helpful illustrations, offers effective ways of managing chronic pain and is a must-read for all sufferers.
Breathworks Living Well with Pain and Illness Course offer a wide range of mindfulness skills to ease the suffering associated with persistent pain and/or ill health, whatever the diagnosis. Each week you will learn new strategies and approaches within a warm and friendly group setting. You will learn:
Breath awareness
Body awareness and relaxation
Gentle mindful movement
Training in how to manage pain in daily life
Mindfulness meditation practice, including cultivating kindliness towards yourself and empathy for others
People we have helped so far include those with chronic back pain, arthritis, fibromyalgia, chronic fatigue, post-operative pain, cancer, multiple sclerosis, ME, neuropathies, Parkinson’s disease, and many other types of pain and illness

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 你深受揮之不去的宿疾與疼痛所苦嗎？
該如何面對關節炎、纖維囊腫、慢性疲勞、術後痛、癌症、多發性硬化症、神經系統病變、帕金森氏症、和讓人深受折磨、各種類型的陳年肉體疼痛和沉痾病症？
與其自怨自哀或者選擇以放棄等消極的態度面對，不如與你的疼痛與宿疾好好相處！
多數的人們都有疼痛與宿疾的問題，但多半選擇忽略、忍耐或麻木以對，甚至依賴止痛藥物、麻醉劑或酒精、咖啡因甚至毒品，逃避難以忍受的身體狀況。作者一針見血的指出：
It is quite possible to be spiritually dead while physically still alive.
不想活得像行屍走肉，想要更覺知、提升自己的身體、心靈與精神潛在力量，請直視你的疼痛，並且與它好好共存吧！(TT)

Awards/获奖情况：作者自述：
I was born and raised in New Zealand and first became interested in meditation in 1985 when receiving hospital treatment for a spinal injury. I intuited that meditation and mindfulness could offer me a unique means of easing the mental suffering associated with the physical pain I was experiencing, which has turned out to be the case. For the subsequent 20 years I have continued to follow this thread, moving to the UK in 1990 to live at a retreat centre in Shropshire, training further in meditation and preparing for ordination into the Western Buddhist Order. My spinal condition deteriorated further in the late 1990s and I now use crutches or a wheelchair for mobility, but my overall quality of life has continued to improve as I have become more and more adept at managing my responses to my physical condition and enriching my life in other ways.
In 1996 I moved to Manchester and in 2001 I started teaching mindfulness-based approaches to others living with physical pain and illness, with funding from the Millennium Commission. In 2004 I founded Breathworks with Sona and Gary, both good friends of mine, who are very experienced meditators and teachers. I am deeply committed to the project and find it extremely satisfying.
I have been on a number of conferences, courses and training retreats with experts in the field of pain management and mindfulness, enabling me to draw on a wide range of approaches in my teaching – using both mindfulness and other recognised pain management interventions. I also continue to attend and lead residential intensive meditation retreats several times a year."

About the Author/作者介绍： Vidyamala Burch has suffered with chronic pain for over 30 years due to congenital weakness, a car accident and unsuccessful surgery. She is now a wheelchair user. In this positive and reassuring new book, she identifies that it is our resistance to pain which causes it to be so distressing and miserable. We don’t want it to be happening to us, and we wish we weren’t experiencing it. Vidyamala’s acute back pain has awakened her to the truth of suffering. By attending to each passing moment, she is discovering what it means to embrace life.
作者因為脊椎問題、車禍、以及不當的醫療手術後遺症，長年被疼痛折磨，生不如死，群醫卻束手無策。當她恍然大悟到這些疼痛與不舒服的感覺，恐怕將終其一生，與她如影隨形時，她甚至動過自殺的念頭，希望能一了百了。幸運的是，她漸漸發現人是可以與疾病和疼痛共存的，透過心靈力量、冥想、放鬆、伸展與呼吸，還有集體的支持與關懷，人可以學會習慣疼痛，甚至讓疼痛消失於無形，忘記疼痛惡魔的存在。現在她雖然偶爾仍須以拐杖與輪椅代步，但是臉上已經出現了笑容。這位與疼痛搏鬥成功的作家，目前在一家帶有公益色彩的治療坊，現身說法帶領人脫離痛病的苦海，也完成了好幾本暢銷作品，包括此書。

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