Merciful Awareness: Natural Pain Management
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Use Your Mind to Naturally Relieve All Kinds of Physical and Emotional Pain
For over 30 years, Stephen Levine has helped bring the gift of meditation to those most in need. Merciful Awareness: Natural Pain Management is a direct result of Levine's remarkable experience with the use of awareness techniques in hospices and care centers as a treatment for emotional and physical pain.
We are conditioned to react to pain with fear, Levine begins, and our unwillingness to investigate it only leads to greater suffering. But when pain is met by merciful awareness, this internal war against ourselves dissolves. We join him for a three-stage, extended meditation designed to peel away the layers of armor around our hearts, and explore how pain stimulates the possibilities for deeper levels of healing and love.
Warmly shared, with a voice that has come to represent true compassion in hospices, medical schools, and pain centers around the world, Merciful Awareness is a culmination of Stephen Levine's service to everyone in search of the healing that goes “beyond even cure.”
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Stephen Levine
Stephen Levine (1937–2016) was a poet and teacher of guided meditation healing techniques who, with his wife Ondrea, counseled the dying and their loved ones for more than 30 years. Stephen Levine’s bestselling books Healing into Life and Death, A Gradual Awakening, and A Year to Live are considered classics in the field of conscious living and dying. He is also the coauthor, with Ondrea, of the acclaimed To Love and Be Loved and Who Dies?
The Levines’ work is said to stretch from the most painful experiences of the human spectrum to the furthest point on the human horizon, from hell to heaven, from pain to ease, from our ongoing sense of loss to the legacy of our unending interconnectedness. Their experiential Conscious Living/Conscious Dying workshops offered a meditative investigation of what it means to be fully alive, helping to cultivate the qualities which heal the mind and heart while exploring the nature of what it is that dies.
