Turning Suffering Inside Out: A Zen Approach to Living with Physical and Emotional Pain - Paperback

$24.95

Turning Suffering Inside Out: A Zen Approach to Living with Physical and Emotional Pain - Paperback

Name: Turning Suffering Inside Out: A Zen Approach to Living with Physical and Emotional Pain - Paperback
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SKU: 9781570628177
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by Darlene Cohen

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Book Overview

This "practical, down-to-earth, and very wise guide to awakening" offers a Zen-based approach to coping with physical, psychological, and spiritual pain (Jack Kornfield)

Darlene Cohen discovered the secret to finding happiness in the midst of debilitating pain. She shares her knowledge in her popular workshops and now in this book. 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.

Cohen--a certified massage and movement therapist and Zen teacher--proposes a radically liberating alternative to the usual desperate search for pain relief: paradoxically, she says, release from suffering lies in paying closer attention to it. 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.

"Enrich your life exponentially," Cohen advises. If your pain is one of the ten things you are aware of, then it constitutes a tenth of your total awareness. Expand your awareness to a hundred things, however, and your pain is only a hundredth of your awareness. With stories, strategies, exercises, and an awareness born of long Zen practice, Cohen shows us how to tap into that enrichment--and how we can lead a satisfying and even joyful life in the very midst of pain.

ISBN	9781570628177
Author	Darlene Cohen
Publisher	Shambhala
Genre	Religion & spirituality and Health & fitness
Format	Paperback
Published	October 2002
Language	ENG- English
Pages	272
Weight	1.0 lb
Target Audience	Adults
Print Size	Standard Print