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Darlene
Cohen discovered the secret to finding happiness in the midst of debilitating
pain. She shares her knowledge in her popular workshops and now in this book.
Cohen, who has suffered from rheumatoid arthritis for eighteen years, was
hobbling painfully to her local Zen center one day, when she made a discovery
that changed her life: if she focused on the foot that was in the air rather
than the one that was hitting the pavement, her stamina increased enormously.
It was the beginning of a completely different approach to the crippling pain
that had beset her for so long. As she demonstrates here, this approach can be
expanded to all types of pain: physical, psychological, and spiritual.

Cohen—a
certified massage and movement therapist and Zen teacher—proposes a radically
liberating alternative to the usual desperate search for pain relief:
paradoxically, she says, release from suffering lies in paying closer attention
to it. When we keep pain at bay, we keep pleasure at bay, too. The two are
interdependent, and our ability to experience each is totally dependent on our
understanding of the other.

"Enrich
your life exponentially," Cohen advises. If your pain is one of the ten things
you are aware of, then it constitutes a tenth of your total awareness. Expand
your awareness to a hundred things, however, and your pain is only a hundredth
of your awareness. With stories, strategies, exercises, and an awareness born
of long Zen practice, Cohen shows us how to tap into that enrichment—and how
we can lead a satisfying and even joyful life in the very midst of pain.

This
book was published in hardcover under the title
Finding
a Joyful Life in the Heart of Pain.