Teach Us to Sit Still
by Tim Parks · first published 2010
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100% recommend
'Just when the medical profession had given up on me and I on it, just when I seemed to be walled up in a life sentence of chronic pain, someone proposed a bizarre way out: sit still, they said, and breathe ... ' TEACH US TO SIT STILL is the visceral, thought-provoking and improbably entertaining story of Tim Parks' quest to overcome ill health.
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Worth reading Tim Park's book: Teach Us to Sit Still: A Sceptic's Search for Health and Healing http://www.amazon.co.uk/Teach-Us-Sit-Still-Sceptics/dp/00995... An accurate review comment: this autobiographical account of his journey from a life dominated…
on “How chronic pain has made me happier” ↗…helping the author Tim Parks overcome increasingly chronic pain. The book is not only very funny in parts, it is also a beautiful description of mindfulness practice : http://tim-parks.com/non-fiction/teach-us-to-sit-still/
on “Meditation study shows changes associated with awareness, stress (2011)” ↗…Nietzsche wept __ Amazing book, the amount of strategy in their conversations is amazing and the book is just high quality. Best to know some stuff about Nietzsche and that era before you read it though. Teach us to sit still - Tim Parks __ Not something you'd give to anyone but if the person is a little intrigued by meditation then this book will probably get them to start doing it. Why the West Rules for Now: The patterns…
on “Ask HN: What book have you given as a gift?” ↗Tim Parks book 'teach us to sit still' is what got me to start a regular meditation practise but only because I enjoyed how hard headed he was and unwilling to accept the obvious positive effect it had on him. This post feels a little bit…
on “Dreaming Outside Our Heads” ↗