Teach Us to Sit Still
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'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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I found this compulsively readable - I have not read any other Tim Park fiction or non-fiction - but I picked this up because I wanted to lull myself to sleep and then 100 pages later had to admit it wasn't in the cards. One man's experience with an embarrassing illness, chronic pain, and a lack in western medicine sending him into a journey of meditation and “paradoxical relaxation” I've read two other books on meditation and mindfulness this spring/summer - maybe I'll get back into it :P
