Finding Freedom in Illness

2016-03-15 Body, Mind & Spirit

Author : Peter Fernando
Release : 2016-03-15
Genre : Body, Mind & Spirit
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Book Rating : 073/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Finding Freedom in Illness written by Peter Fernando. This book was released on 2016-03-15. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Let your illness be your spiritual teacher!" Make a statement like that to someone who's struggled for years with, say, rheumatoid arthritis, and be prepared for an eye roll (at best). To Peter Fernando's credit, he makes that statement, and no such impulse arises. We believe him because he's been there himself and because he backs up the statements with his own real experiences and with real wisdom from the Buddhist teachings. Fernando starts by defusing the pernicious belief that anyone is somehow responsible for their illness: you're not "wrong" for being sick. Then, having gotten past self-blame, one can begin to learn self-kindness. From there, one moves to mindfulness practices and cultivating body awareness—even if body awareness is distasteful when the body isn't behaving the way you like. Further topics include getting intimate with dark emotions (fear, despair, the scary future, frustration, grief, etc.), learning equanimity (rejoicing in the good fortune of those who don't share your suffering), cultivating healthy relationships in the midst of everything, and practical advice for living with pain. Each chapter comes with one or more practices or guided meditations for putting the teachings into practice.

Finding Freedom in Illness

2016-03-15 Body, Mind & Spirit

Author : Peter Fernando
Release : 2016-03-15
Genre : Body, Mind & Spirit
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 636/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Finding Freedom in Illness by : Peter Fernando

Download or read book Finding Freedom in Illness written by Peter Fernando. This book was released on 2016-03-15. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Buddhist wisdom for finding freedom and insight through spiritual practice in the midst of illness and pain. "Let your illness be your spiritual teacher!" Make a statement like that to someone who's struggled for years with, say, rheumatoid arthritis, and be prepared for an eyeroll (at best). To Peter Fernando's credit, he makes that statement, and no such impulse arises. We believe him because he's been there himself and because he backs up the statements with his own real experiences and with real wisdom from the Buddhist teachings. Peter starts by defusing the pernicious belief that anyone is somehow responsible for their illness: You're not "wrong" for being sick. Then, having gotten past self-blame, one can begin to learn self-kindness. From there, one moves to mindfulness practices and cultivating body awareness--even if body awareness is distasteful when the body isn't behaving the way you like. Further topics include getting intimate with dark emotions (fear, despair, the scary future, frustration, grief, etc.), learning equanimity (rejoicing in the good fortune of those who don't share your suffering), cultivating healthy relationships in the midst of everything, and practical advice for living with pain. Each chapter comes with one or more practices or guided meditations for putting the teachings into practice.

Sick from Freedom

2012-05-01 History

Author : Jim Downs
Release : 2012-05-01
Genre : History
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 788/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Sick from Freedom written by Jim Downs. This book was released on 2012-05-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bondspeople who fled from slavery during and after the Civil War did not expect that their flight toward freedom would lead to sickness, disease, suffering, and death. But the war produced the largest biological crisis of the nineteenth century, and as historian Jim Downs reveals in this groundbreaking volume, it had deadly consequences for hundreds of thousands of freed people. In Sick from Freedom, Downs recovers the untold story of one of the bitterest ironies in American history--that the emancipation of the slaves, seen as one of the great turning points in U.S. history, had devastating consequences for innumerable freed people. Drawing on massive new research into the records of the Medical Division of the Freedmen's Bureau-a nascent national health system that cared for more than one million freed slaves-he shows how the collapse of the plantation economy released a plague of lethal diseases. With emancipation, African Americans seized the chance to move, migrating as never before. But in their journey to freedom, they also encountered yellow fever, smallpox, cholera, dysentery, malnutrition, and exposure. To address this crisis, the Medical Division hired more than 120 physicians, establishing some forty underfinanced and understaffed hospitals scattered throughout the South, largely in response to medical emergencies. Downs shows that the goal of the Medical Division was to promote a healthy workforce, an aim which often excluded a wide range of freedpeople, including women, the elderly, the physically disabled, and children. Downs concludes by tracing how the Reconstruction policy was then implemented in the American West, where it was disastrously applied to Native Americans. The widespread medical calamity sparked by emancipation is an overlooked episode of the Civil War and its aftermath, poignantly revealed in Sick from Freedom.

Finding Freedom

2019-12-08

Author : Raelan Agle
Release : 2019-12-08
Genre :
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Book Rating : 196/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Finding Freedom written by Raelan Agle. This book was released on 2019-12-08. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Raelan Agle is an impeccable storyteller whose journey of desperate struggle and eventual triumph over chronic fatigue syndrome is as candid as it is heartfelt.. With startling wisdom and frank humor, she shares her life-altering encounter with chronic illness that took her on an emotional rollercoaster ride around the globe. Raelan's captivating and hopeful voice permeates this insightful and engaging book filled with helpful information and practical advice not only for fellow CFS sufferers but for anyone who simply wants to be living the best possible version of their lives. In addition to revealing the specific strategies and steps that led to her complete recovery from her decade-long battle with chronic fatigue syndrome, she also created an instruction manual for everyone for living a happy and healthy life. Her deeply personal yet universally felt story is not only inspirational but also details the actions you can take today to start recovering from chronic fatigue syndrome and changing your life for the better. In Finding Freedom, Raelan takes you by the hand and challenges you to not accept the status quo. With her approach to chronic fatigue syndrome treatment, she shows you how you can positively change your life while empowering you to never again accept anything less than the absolute healthiest and happiest life possible.

Finding Freedom from Anxiety and Worry

2013-04-15 Religion

Author : Dr. William Backus
Release : 2013-04-15
Genre : Religion
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Book Rating : 90X/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Finding Freedom from Anxiety and Worry written by Dr. William Backus. This book was released on 2013-04-15. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thousands of people have seen their lives improve with the help of Dr. William Backus. Here he explains how misbelief therapy can be used to replace worry-producing thoughts with peace-giving truth. Practical and realistic, this book doesn't promise a worry-free life, but it does show readers how to ease and reduce anxiety and even use it to become the person God wants them to be.

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