Lifting Your Spirits: 7 tools for coping with illness

By Jan Alcoe

A unique e book providing 7 self-help tools and audio tracks for coping with the physical and emotional challenge of illness.  it introduces seven simple tools to develop inner strength and enhance well-being on all levels, along with uplifting audio relaxations, meditations and song.

• Language: English
• Publisher: The Janki Foundation for Spirituality in Healthcare
• Release date: Mar 31, 2023
• ISBN: 9780954838652

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Lifting Your Spirits

Lifting Your Spirits

Seven Tools for Coping with Illness

Copyright © The Janki Foundation for Spirituality in Healthcare 2021

978-0-9548386-5-2

All rights reserved. No part of this book or the accompanying audio recordings may be reproduced by any mechanical, photographic or electronic process, or in the form of a photographic or audio recording, nor may it be stored in a retrieval system, transmitted or otherwise copied for public or private use without the written permission of the publisher. Requests for permission should be addressed to:

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Cover and interior design: karenhobden.com

Illustrations: © Lou Beckerman

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Audio recordings: see end of book

A print version of this book is also available with CDs and access to mp3 tracks

DISCLAIMER: Important note for the reader

The suggestions, exercises and audio recordings presented in this book are not intended as a substitute for a consultation with, or advice from, qualified medical and healthcare professionals. The author and publishers cannot be held responsible for any loss, claim or damage arising from the use or misuse of materials in the book, or failure to take medical advice.

Many of the audio tracks are designed to induce deep relaxation and should not be played when the listener needs to maintain full concentration, for example, while driving.

Dedication

To Dadi Janki, Founding President of The Janki Foundation for Spirituality in Healthcare, for her inspiration and dedication to the improvement of patient care in the UK and worldwide.

Author: Jan Alcoe

Jan Alcoe is a writer, publisher and facilitator in health and social care, and publishing adviser to The Janki Foundation for Spirituality in Healthcare. During treatment for cancer, she used the seven tools for her own sustenance and self-healing. She was inspired to write Lifting Your Spirits because of the benefits she derived and the lack of any guide of this kind for people who have been diagnosed with serious illness. She draws on the insights of friends who shared their own stories of coping with illness, and of healthcare colleagues and practitioners who supported her on her journey.

Edited by: Dr Craig Brown

Contributors from The Janki Foundation for Spirituality in Healthcare:

Dr Craig Brown

Dr Kala Mistry

Arnold Desser

Bhavna Patani

Dr Sarah Eagger

Joy Rendell

Acknowledgements

The seven tools were first developed by a Janki Foundation healthcare group, including the author, as the basis for a personal and team development programme for healthcare professionals called Values in Healthcare: a spiritual approach (The Janki Foundation for Spirituality in Healthcare, 2004 www.jankifoundation.org).

With sincere thanks to the following for their additional contributions to the book and audio recordings:

Susan Balmforth, Lou Beckerman, Michal Curry, Dr David Goodman, Suman Kalra, Margaret McCathie, Michelle Melon, Maggie Parle, Jana Stanfield, Matthew Stephenson, Chris Wilson, Simon Wong and Dr Harvey Zarren

and to all those who have given feedback, advice and support, including Margaret Barron, Maureen Goodman, Neville Hodgkinson, Himanshu Panchal, Jaymini Patel and Ruth Sewell.

With special thanks from the author to the following for their healing and guiding wisdom: Lou Beckerman, Rex Brangwyn, Dr Craig Brown, Peter Dale, Dr Neil Hodson, Dottie Hook, Sister Jayanti, Derin Waller, Chris Wilson, Dr Harvey Zarren and my children, Dan, Steph and Charly.

Foreword

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