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Managing Pain and Illness
Develop key skills for managing pain and illness with teacher, author, and global leader in mindfulness for pain management, Vidyamala Burch OBE.
If you’ve been living with pain or illness...
You know it’s not just about the physical discomfort. There’s the disruption to daily life. The grief over the plans you had and what you can no longer do. The isolation of not being able to participate in the community the way you used to or the feeling that many people struggle to understand what you are experiencing. The fear that life won’t ever feel as full or joyful as it once did.
In this exclusive Course, Vidyamala introduces the key skills and lessons to help you manage pain and illness. These simple tools have been proven to be transformative and highly effective for thousands of people globally from beginners to seasoned experts.
Learn essential mindfulness-based pain management tools
World-renowned mindfulness teacher Vidyamala Burch OBE has spent decades developing a proven evidence-based approach that uses the mind and the breath to help people deal with pain and illness, reduce their suffering, and live meaningful lives.
What's included in this 7-day Course?
7 Transformative Sessions
Daily teachings — approximately 15 minutes or less per day — an easy addition to any routine.
Q&A
Bonus content of Vidyamala personally answering questions about dealing with pain and illness, reducing one's suffering, and living a meaningful life.
Mini Meditations
Bonus 2-minute meditations for in-the-moment relief from anxiety and tension.
Guided Meditations
Deeper explorations to help cultivate your own inner peace, despite being in pain, in your daily life.
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Managing Pain and Illness Course
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- 7 transformative lessons
- 5 bonus Q&A content
- 4 bonus mini meditations
- 3 bonus guided meditations
- Access on your computer
- Access on the Mindfulness.com app
With a Mindfulness Plus+ Annual Membership, you will get this Course and more for FREE.
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Mindfulness Plus+ subscribers have seen significant improvements in their everyday life.
75%
Improved Happiness
84%
Feel Less Anxious
91%
Feel Less Stressed
99%
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What you'll learn:
Session 1: The Bravery of Presence
In this first session, Vidyamala, who has lived with pain for decades, shares the central insight of learning to take difficulty one moment at a time, as a life-changing doorway to greater ease.
Session 2: Pain Without Suffering
In this session, learn how to divide experience into Primary Pain and Secondary Suffering, and how to let go of suffering caused by resistance whilst enlisting breathing and gravity to help on the journey.
Session 3: Get a Handle on Your Thoughts and Emotions
In this session, learn the crucial mindfulness skill of how to look ‘at’ your thoughts and emotions rather than ‘from’, providing you with much greater perspective.
Session 4: Cultivating Balance and Compassion
Cultivate balance in this session by learning how to widen your ‘window of tolerance’ between the extremes of denial and overwhelm, while also learning how to bring compassion towards your experience.
Session 5: Widening the View, Appreciating Pleasure
In this session, learn to enrich your experience enormously by widening your field of awareness so that you can learn to appreciate the beauty and pleasure that sits alongside pain or illness.
Session 6: You Are Not Alone
In this session we learn how to imaginatively connect with the shared human experience and move from isolation to empathy.
Session 7: To Be Soft Is to Be Strong
In this final session, we explore how true strength comes from learning how to be soft and pliable around difficulty - yielding awareness into the constant flow of sensations.
Meet Your Teacher
Vidyamala Burch OBE
Vidyamala is a mindfulness & compassion teacher, coach, award-winning author, and co-founder of Breathworks.
She started meditating in 1985, after a series of spinal injuries in her late teens left her with chronic pain and partial paraplegia.
She found such transformative healing in mindfulness that she devoted herself to study and practice. Eventually, she developed a Mindfulness-based Pain & Illness Management programme which has been recognized by The British Pain Society.
To date, her evidence-based Mindfulness-based Pain & Illness Management (MBPM) approach has reached over 100k people around the world and is recognized by health boards globally.
Vidyamala hopes to pass on the tools that have helped her to reclaim a full and meaningful life.
No matter what stress, illness, or life circumstance you are encountering, mindfulness will train your mind to work with you, rather than against you.
—Vidyamala Burch
Kind words for Vidyamala
Jon Kabat-Zinn
Creator of Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction (MBSR), University of Massachusetts Medical School
"I admire Vidyamala Burch tremendously... Her approach could save your life—and give it back to you."
Sharon Salzberg
New York Times Bestselling Author and Co-founder of the Insight Meditation Society at Barre, Massachusetts.
"Vidyamala shares essential tools for harnessing the power of our minds and hearts to navigate all kinds of pain."
Arianna Huffington
Bestselling Author of 15 books, Co-founder of The Huffington Post and CEO of Thrive Global
"Vidyamala [offers] simple daily practices that anyone struggling with pain and stress can follow."
Frequently asked questions
When is this course taking place?
You can take part in this course anytime. As soon as you make payment, you will get lifetime access to the course content and you can do it at your own pace.
How can I access the content of this course?
You can access all the content of this course on your computer or in the Mindfulness.com app. As soon as you make payment, we will email you instructions on how to access the content everywhere.
What's the difference between owning it forever and getting Mindfulness Plus+?
If you opt to own this course, you will have lifetime access to this course and you will be able to access it from our website and the Mindfulness.com app. You will only be billed once.
If you opt to buy a Mindfulness Plus+ subscription, you will have full access to this course as well as unlimited access to:
- New Daily Mindfulness meditations 365 days a year.
- Our entire library of over 2,000 meditations, sleep content, talks, mindful exercises, and more.
- Mindfulness Programs from world-leading mindfulness teachers and leaders, including Tara Brach, Cory Muscara, Melli O’Brien, Mark Coleman, and more.
- Unlimited access to Sleep meditations, stories, music and soundscapes to help wind down, fall asleep, and get back to sleep.
- Exclusive events for Mindfulness Plus+ community members only.
You will be billed $84.99 USD annually for a Mindfulness Plus+ membership. You can cancel your subscription anytime.
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