If you’ve ever experienced chronic pain, illness, or discomfort, then do we have the YOU ARE NOT YOUR PAIN show for you! Today I’ll be talking with Vidyamala Burch, best-selling author of numerous books including Living Well with Pain and Illness, and the co-author of a very special new book, You Are Not Your Pain. And that’s just what we’ll be talking about today. About using mindfulness to relieve pain, reduce stress, and restore well-being. That plus we’ll talk about being why you want to be a yacht, not a dinghy, taming the mustang of our mind, coffee meditations, what in the world happened to Roseto, the power of smiling, voluntary calf burning, and why more guys hit on the girls, when they’re swaying from a bridge. Mindfulness Self-Improvement and Self-Help Topics Include: What’s happened in Vidyamala’s family recently What happened to Vidyamala at 17 in New Zealand What happened when she was in an intensive care ward? How’d she start working with Jon Kabat Zinn How mindfulness and meditation began to help with the pain How a Buddhist meditation retreat also began to help How she developed a Mindfulness Based Pain Management program through a company called Breathworks What was the significance of starting to help other people What was a body meditation that she teaches in her book What does gentle, kind, and tender have to do with meditation? Why doesn’t squashing pain or pushing it away work What is the story of the arrow or the dart – from the Buddha What’s it mean to take the mustang of your mind? What is secondary reactive pain? How do we stop our secondary reactive pain? What does pacing mean? What is inner-strength and what does it have to do with mindfulness? What’s a zen Buddhist yielding mind How do our brains automate for suffering? What’s a negativity bias? What’s a green zone and what is green zone 101? What’s the importance of nature and getting out into beauty? How important is it to have a daily meditation practice, or simply a daily practice? What are reminders to come back to the breath (and the power of the green dot) What’s the importance of non-judgment? What’s the balance between human beings and human doings? What can we learn from Roseto Pennsylvania breathworks-mindfulness.co.uk and www.breathworks-mindfulness.org.uk What’s the importance of making a random act of kindness How do we flex the self-love muscle What’s the importance of smiling? What is Mindfulness in Schools and what is .b? What is FOFBOC? What is a kindly breathing meditation? A short guided meditation Vidyamala Burch on How To Relieve Chronic Pain and Illness & Reduce Stress Thru Mindfulness! + Guided Meditation | Health | Fitness | Inspirational | Motivational | Spiritual | Spirituality | Motivation | Self-Improvement | Self-Help | Inspire For More Info Visit: www.InspireNationShow.com