Turning Suffering Inside Out by Darlene Cohen

Turning Suffering Inside Out by Darlene Cohen

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.

Cohen, Darlene: - Darlene Cohen, Ma., LMT, earned her graduate degree in physiological psychology and spent the majority of her Zen training-thirty years-as a laywomen. After developing rheumatoid arthritis, she became a movemont teacher for people with joint restrictions, and was then certified as a maddage and movemont teacher. Currently, she sees clients and gives workshops, classes, lectures, and seminars that emphasize mindfulness, at various medical and meditation centers throughout the San Francisco Bay Area, Washington State, Illinois, and New York City.

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ISBN 13	9781570628177
ISBN 10	1570628173
Title	Turning Suffering Inside Out
Author	Darlene Cohen
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Shambhala Publications Inc
Year published	2002-10-08
Number of pages	272
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