Download or read book Pain and Its Transformations written by Sarah Coakley and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pain is immediate and searing but remains a deep mystery for sufferers, their physicians, and researchers. As neuroscientific research shows, even the immediate sensation of pain is shaped by psychological state and interpretation. At the same time, many individuals and cultures find meaning, particularly religious meaning, even in chronic and inexplicable pain. This ambitious interdisciplinary book includes not only essays but also discussions among a wide range of specialists. Neuroscientists, psychiatrists, anthropologists, musicologists, and scholars of religion examine the ways that meditation, music, prayer, and ritual can mediate pain, offer a narrative that transcends the sufferer, and give public dignity to private agony. They discuss topics as disparate as the molecular basis of pain, the controversial status of gate control theory, the possible links between the relaxation response and meditative practices in Christianity and Buddhism, and the mediation of pain and intense emotion in music, dance, and ritual. The authors conclude by pondering the place of pain in understanding--or the human failure to understand--good and evil in history.
Download or read book Pain and Its Transformations written by Sarah Coakley and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pain is immediate and searing but remains a deep mystery for sufferers, their physicians, and researchers. As neuroscientific research shows, even the immediate sensation of pain is shaped by psychological state and interpretation. At the same time, many individuals and cultures find meaning, particularly religious meaning, even in chronic and inexplicable pain. This ambitious interdisciplinary book includes not only essays but also discussions among a wide range of specialists. Neuroscientists, psychiatrists, anthropologists, musicologists, and scholars of religion examine the ways that meditation, music, prayer, and ritual can mediate pain, offer a narrative that transcends the sufferer, and give public dignity to private agony. They discuss topics as disparate as the molecular basis of pain, the controversial status of gate control theory, the possible links between the relaxation response and meditative practices in Christianity and Buddhism, and the mediation of pain and intense emotion in music, dance, and ritual. The authors conclude by pondering the place of pain in understanding--or the human failure to understand--good and evil in history.
Download or read book Pain The Accelerator To A Life of Purpose written by Melody Kashumba and published by Melody Kashumba. This book was released on 2021-02-26 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is written to help women navigate through seasons of pain and hardship, using those seasons to birth their transformation to a whole new level. But she must first have the right perspective and tools, or the pain can become paralyzing. And with the right tools, and with the awareness of the reason for their pain, it is no longer a hindrance but can be converted to fuel, accelerating these women into their next season.
Download or read book Transformation Through Pain written by Albert Elisha Oberdorfer and published by . This book was released on 2021-06-23 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "God, who gives life to the dead and calls those things which do not exist as though they did" (Romans 4:17) What is the role of pain and suffering in our walk with God? In Scripture, we see that God is a restorer. He always takes what is broken and creates something beautiful from it. So in Christ, God took broken humanity and re-created a new creation. So how then should we deal with the things that are painful and cause suffering in our lives? Find out What the true nature of God is and how He works (He creates life out of death), What attitude we should have towards suffering and pain when we experience it, How Christ's wounds can bring us healing, How we can trust that God is working in us, and How God will use our wounds and pains and transform us into catalysts of healing, restoration, and hope.
Download or read book Transformations written by Kathryn J. Bennett and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Book of Pain written by Chad Schuitema and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-08-07 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: None of us are immune to the trauma of emotionally painful experiences. These experiences act like narration in our lives as we make meaning out of them. When pain goes unprocessed and unresolved we act out of that pain transmitting it to others. We often inflict pain on those we are in the deepest relationships with without even realizing what we are doing or the source of these actions. Through the author's powerful stories of personal pain and suggestions for how to transform this pain, readers will gain necessary skills and hope for their relationships to become more healthy and whole both spiritually and emotionally.
Download or read book Transformation Through Pain written by Albert Elisha Oberdorfer and published by . This book was released on 2020-03-24 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As a believer, do you feel that you have experienced a fair share of setbacks and sufferings? Take heart. God is committed to your transformation.He will use your wounds and pains, and transform you into something beautiful.Learn from the many characters in the bible that went through great trials and hardships, only to discover in the process that God had turned them into catalysts of healing, restoration, and hope. He will do the same for you.
Download or read book Chronic Pain Rehabilitation written by Dr Evan Parks and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2024-09-26 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is your every movement painful? Uncover a bold new method for comfort and confidence. Does agony define your daily experiences? Have overactive nerves drained you of energy? Are you told you're crazy because your doctor does not understand your pain? Pain-management expert Dr Evan Parks has 32 years of experience helping people find hope and freedom. Now he's here to teach you how to reclaim command of your mind and body so you can wake up refreshed and ready to conquer your goals. Standard medical care used to treat chronic pain often leaves pain sufferers with limited short-term relief and serious long-term complications. If you have tried medications, injections, and surgeries and are still in pain, then you are ready for an approach based on the latest advances in neuroscience and pain psychology. You will learn the step-by-step process you need to follow to reduce your pain and move forward with your life. In Chronic Pain Rehabilitation, you'll discover: * How brain science can help you rewire your central nervous system * How to avoid pain flare-ups and manage them when they occur * How to manage the stress that goes hand-in-hand with chronic pain * How to sleep better and improve your mood * How to develop a flexible mind and focus on what is important in your life * Recovery stories to inspire you along your healing journey, and much, much more! Let a pain rehabilitation expert be your guide to recovery and living your best life.
Download or read book The Analytic Field and its Transformations written by Giuseppe Civitarese and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-05-08 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Analytic Field and its Transformations presents a collection of articles, written jointly by the authors in recent years, all revolving around the post-Bionian model of the analytic field - Bionian Field Theory (BFT). Going hand-in-hand with the ever-growing interest in Bion in general, analytic field theory is emerging as a new paradigm in psychoanalysis. Bion mounted a systematic deconstruction of the principles of classical psychoanalysis. His aim, however, was not to destroy it, but rather to bring out its untapped potential and to develop ideas that have remained on its margins. BFT is a field of inquiry that refuses a priori, at least from its own specific perspective, to immobilize the facts of the analysis within a rigid historical or intrapsychic framework. Its intention is rather to bring out the historicity of the present, the way in which the relationship is formed instant-by-instant from a subtle interplay of identity and differentiation, proximity and distance, embracing both Bion's rigorous, and his radical, spirit.
Download or read book Psychological Mechanisms of Pain and Analgesia written by Donald D. Price and published by Progress in Pain Research and. This book was released on 1999 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Pain and Its Transforming Power written by Nancy Magor. and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 27 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Ten Steps to the End of Pain A Guide to Conscious Living written by Linda L. Manning and published by E-Booktime, LLC. This book was released on 2007-02-01 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Ten Steps will help you create release from pain, no matter what its quality or quantity and in your practice of these Steps you may transform your life. The book presents Ten Steps and takes the reader on a guided journey through thoughtful examination of ideas and through related real life stories. The Steps are tools guiding us toward the transformation of pain whether it is physical, mental or emotional. The Steps are described and stories are told to illustrate and enhance the reader's understanding of them. The stories reflect varieties of pain experienced through heartbreak, loss of security, discontent and battle with life-threatening disease. The stories all provide the reader with examples of ways out of the mess. The book defines a new relationship with pain for the individual and then through the Steps utilizes the experience and relationship with pain to create the change it requires of us. The change in turn transforms or eliminates the pain. The book describes a natural process available to us all but rarely taught or described as this work reveals. The Steps are based on experiential knowledge and the experience of individuals practicing The Ten Steps is included. At the core of each Step is choice. The first choice, you will find in this work, is to redefine pain as a friend and ally. Pain is not bad or good. It's a directional arrow to show the friction area within that needs attention and work. This may be difficult, but by suspending disbelief and allowing pain to guide, transformation and growth follows. This work does not ask us to embrace and seek pain masochistically. It asks us rather to acknowledge and feel it and to then follow the Steps to find who wereally are. We are not the pain. In conclusion, this book promises the reader a way out of the mess of pain. By the end of the book the reader will be inspired by the real experiences of others and be opened to a new way of seeing their world. The Steps appear simple but are not easy hence the need for explanatory and descriptive writing. They are a westernized path to mastery over the world of nature (internal and external) and our life within it. Their conscious practice and mastery is a movement toward Soul Development and coming into a higher level of being within the human experience.
Download or read book Transitions and Transformations written by Caitrin Lynch and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2013-04-01 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rapid population aging, once associated with only a select group of modern industrialized nations, has now become a topic of increasing global concern. This volume reframes aging on a global scale by illustrating the multiple ways it is embedded within individual, social, and cultural life courses. It presents a broad range of ethnographic work, introducing a variety of conceptual and methodological approaches to studying life-course transitions in conjunction with broader sociocultural transformations. Through detailed accounts, in such diverse settings as nursing homes in Sri Lanka, a factory in Massachusetts, cemeteries in Japan and clinics in Mexico, the authors explore not simply our understandings of growing older, but the interweaving of individual maturity and intergenerational relationships, social and economic institutions, and intimate experiences of gender, identity, and the body.
Download or read book Stone Fruit written by Lee Lai and published by Fantagraphics Books. This book was released on 2021-05-11 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bron and Ray are a queer couple who enjoy their role as the fun weirdo aunties to Ray’s niece, six-year-old Nessie. Their playdates are little oases of wildness, joy, and ease in all three of their lives, which ping-pong between familial tensions and deep-seeded personal stumbling blocks. As their emotional intimacy erodes, Ray and Bron isolate from each other and attempt to repair their broken family ties ― Ray with her overworked, resentful single-mother sister and Bron with her religious teenage sister who doesn’t fully grasp the complexities of gender identity. Taking a leap of faith, each opens up and learns they have more in common with their siblings than they ever knew. At turns joyful and heartbreaking, Stone Fruit reveals through intimately naturalistic dialog and blue-hued watercolor how painful it can be to truly become vulnerable to your loved ones ― and how fulfilling it is to be finally understood for who you are. Lee Lai is one of the most exciting new voices to break into the comics medium and she has created one of the truly sophisticated graphic novel debuts in recent memory.
Download or read book Psychological Methods of Pain Control written by Donald D. Price and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Remarkable progress has been made in understanding both the psychological factors that influence pain, including attention, emotions and expectation, and psychological methods of pain control, such as hypnosis. This progress has several sources, including improved designs of both experimental and clinical studies and the interface of brain imaging with thoughtful questions. We have learned that pain can be powerfully influenced by addressing factors that pertain to the patients' perception of treatments. This book explains fundamental principles underlying the psychological control of pain. Understanding these principles fulfills an important need for those seeking a scientific understanding of pain control, as well as for those who treat pain patients.
Download or read book The Story of Pain written by Joanna Bourke and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2014-06-26 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Everyone knows what is feels like to be in pain. Scraped knees, toothaches, migraines, giving birth, cancer, heart attacks, and heartaches: pain permeates our entire lives. We also witness other people - loved ones - suffering, and we 'feel with' them. It is easy to assume this is the end of the story: 'pain-is-pain-is-pain', and that is all there is to say. But it is not. In fact, the way in which people respond to what they describe as 'painful' has changed considerably over time. In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, for example, people believed that pain served a specific (and positive) function - it was a message from God or Nature; it would perfect the spirit. 'Suffer in this life and you wouldn't suffer in the next one'. Submission to pain was required. Nothing could be more removed from twentieth and twenty-first century understandings, where pain is regarded as an unremitting evil to be 'fought'. Focusing on the English-speaking world, this book tells the story of pain since the eighteenth century, addressing fundamental questions about the experience and nature of suffering over the last three centuries. How have those in pain interpreted their suffering - and how have these interpretations changed over time? How have people learnt to conduct themselves when suffering? How do friends and family react? And what about medical professionals: should they immerse themselves in the suffering person or is the best response a kind of professional detachment? As Joanna Bourke shows in this fascinating investigation, people have come up with many different answers to these questions over time. And a history of pain can tell us a great deal about how we might respond to our own suffering in the present - and, just as importantly, to the suffering of those around us.
Download or read book Writing in Pain written by V. Ramazani and published by Springer. This book was released on 2007-09-03 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book argues that while pain is an irreducible neuro-physiological phenomenon, how pain is experienced is powerfully inflected by language and culture. Using Second Empire France after Napoleon III's seizure of power as a particularly revealing time of re-acculturation, it elaborates on the "culture of denial."
