A New Look at Chronic Pain

Finding a Joyful Life in the Heart of Pain

A New book by Darlene Cohen

    Darlene Cohen, who has suffered from rheumatoid arthritis for twenty years, was hobbling to a local Zen center when she made a discovery that changed her life: If she focused on the foot that was in the air, rather than the one hitting the pavement, her stamina increased enormously. It was the beginning of a completely different understanding of the crippling pain that she had endurred for so long. As she demonstrated in "Finding a Joyful Life", this new insight helped bring relief from different types of pain: physical, psychological, and spiritual.

    Cohen, a certified massage and movement therapist, proposes a radically liberating appraoch: relief from suffering lies in paying closer attention to it. Pain and pleasure are interdependent: our ability to experience one is totally dependent on our understanding of the other.

    "Enrich your life exponentially," she advises. "If your pain is one of ten things you are aware of, then it composes a tenth of your awareness. Expand your awareness to a hundred things, however,and you pain is only a hundredth of your awareness."

    Using stories, strategies, exercises, and an awareness born of long Zen practice, she shows us how to tap into that enrichment, how we can lead a satisfying - and even joyful - life in the midst of pain.

 

Darlene Cohen

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