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Mindfulness for Health
- A Practical Guide to Relieving Pain, Reducing Stress and Restoring Well-Being
- Narrated by: Vidyamala Burch
- Length: 6 hrs and 49 mins
- Categories: Health & Wellness, Alternative & Complementary Medicine
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Summary
Pain, suffering, and stress can be intolerable - but it doesn't have to be this way. Mindfulness for Health reveals a set of simple practices that you can incorporate into daily life to relieve chronic pain, suffering and stress. Clinical trials show that mindfulness meditation is at least as effective as the most commonly prescribed painkillers and can be more powerful than morphine. Mindfulness can also significantly reduce the anxiety, depression, irritability, exhaustion and insomnia that can arise from chronic pain and illness.
Mindfulness for Health is based on a unique meditation programme developed by Vidyamala Burch to help her cope with the severe pain of a spinal injury. The Breathworks Centre founded by Vidyamala - and its affiliates around the world - have helped thousands of people cope with pain, illness and stress. Its pioneering approach is praised by Professor Mark Williams of Oxford University, Jon Kabat Zinn, and Professor Lance McCraken of King's College London. The eight week programme at the heart of this book takes just 10-20 minutes per day. You'll be surprised by how quickly your suffering melts away, leaving behind a deep-seated love of life. This title includes eight guided meditations which appear throughout the audio, as well as being collected at the end.
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- Saffy
- 14-11-13
Highly recommended
I have attended mindfulness courses and read and listened to many mindfulness books and this is definitely one of the best. If you are suffering from pain or illness and have never tried mindfulness, this is a perfect place to start. Vidyamala Burch has personal experience of chronic pain and her own use of mindfulness techniques to help with this is extremely inspiring. She narrates this beautifully- her voice is empathetic, soothing and inspiring. This is also a fantastic listen, if like me, you already have some experience of mindfulness meditation. The mindfulness exercises at the end of the book are some of the best I have found on audio.
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- Carolyn
- 19-02-14
INCREDIBLE
Would you listen to Mindfulness for Health again? Why?
I'm going to soon, I got so much out of it the first time and am sure the second will reaffirm the inner peace and warmth this book helped me find.
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An amazing start to a journey into mindfulness for me, and a book that a plan to return to many times whenever in need of a little guidance. I'd recommend this to anyone suffering from pain, mental, physical or both. Well written, in a way other self help books aren't, this one really doesn't make you feel to blame. Gives you knowledge and techniques, and guides you in how to apply them.
7 people found this helpful
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- Helen James
- 04-03-16
Ideal for audial? learners
I struggle to process written word and try not to let this be a barrier to learning. To have a book on mindfulness narrated by the same voice as the mindfulness tracks themselves is wonderful. I've re-listened to many sections preceding a track as a scene setter to practice. Thankyou MfH and Breathworks creators for the whole experience. Kath Woods our 8 week physical course teacher has also been a joy. Please don't hesitate in getting this audible offering if you struggle in any way with texts.
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- Amazon Customer
- 21-07-15
Great insight
Would you recommend this audiobook to a friend? If so, why?
Yes, I have recently been introduced to idea of practising mindfulness after suffering from chronic pain, I would recommend this book to a friend as it has helped me greatly.
What does Vidyamala Burch bring to the story that you wouldn’t experience if you had only read the book?
I found the authors narration very easy to listen to, this also helped with following and understanding the techniques involved.
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- Wedgy
- 13-04-15
Excellent pain management tool
I'd recommend this book for anyone who needs to develop some pain lowering calm in their lives. Do you get grumpy from your pain levels? Is life a chore because of your Chronic Pain? Then do try listening to this book. It can revolutionise your life! 😃
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- Namenlos
- 16-01-21
Great work ruined by lack of indexing
I am a massive advocate of mindfulness and can 100% attest to its effectiveness but I would strongly advise against buying the audiobook, hence the 1 star. The core of this work is an 8 week programme but it is impossible to navigate when the chapter headings are just numbered and on top of that they do not even match up with the chapters as spoken by the narrator. Evidently all the meditations are separate files at the end but as they are all just numbered, you have to click on each one to find the one you need. I’m irritated and frustrated - not a great frame of mind for meditation.
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- Annette Guilding
- 12-12-20
Why no chapter titles?
Whyyy would you go through all the effort and expense of producing an audiobook, only to fail to label the chapters at the end? This is a practical guide, many of the chapters are just guided meditations, yet they're labelled as nothing but 1 2 3 4 etc...
This book would be 1000x more usable if the chapters were properly labelled!!!
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- Anonymous User
- 02-09-19
For everyone's benefit
Powerful story and practices to help people manage their physical and mental health with greater presence in daily life. Learning to live our life rather than resist it. Flourishing with rather than denying our ill health.
Stay with it and follow the daily practices, it will change your life experience.
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- M. Orchard
- 28-04-14
The perfect guide to mindful meditation
Would you recommend this audiobook to a friend? If so, why?
This book could potentially change your life. It is an easy to follow guide to mindful meditation. I bought it to accompany the course and love it.
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- Stephen O.
- 19-02-21
Excellent narration
A life changing resource for anyone looking to reclaim their life back from pain. The content, structure and narration are outstanding.