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    How to Be Sick: Your Pocket Companion
    How to Be Sick: Your Pocket Companion
    How to Be Sick: Your Pocket Companion
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    How to Be Sick: Your Pocket Companion

    By Toni Bernhard

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    The must-have guide to the practices of the bestselling classic to help you cope with the pain and uncertainty of illness and navigate your relationships with family, friends, and medical professionals.

    You won’t be alone when you have this pocket-sized treasure of transformative practices, written by beloved bestselling author Toni Bernhard.

    In 2001, Toni got sick and never recovered. As she faced the confusion, frustration, and despair of a life that was suddenly severely limited, Toni had to learn how to be sick.

    In this easy-to-use, easy-to-carry book, Toni shares practices from her bestselling classic How to Be Sick and also offers new suggestions and strategies for coping with a life impacted by chronic pain and illness. Because the book is organized by specific challenges, you can immediately find practices that can help when they’re needed most.
     
    With this book in hand, you will discover the experiential wisdom that has helped Toni live a life of equanimity, compassion, and joy, despite her physical and energetic restrictions—and, sometimes, because of them. In the pages of this loyal companion, you’ll find help, solace, and inspiration, no matter what life challenge you’re facing.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherWisdom Publications
    Release dateMay 26, 2020
    ISBN9781614296775
    How to Be Sick: Your Pocket Companion

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      How to Be Sick - Toni Bernhard

      THE CHALLENGE

      Not Engaging in Self-Blame

      I know from experience that nothing positive comes from directing blame at yourself. Anybody can get sick, physically or mentally, and anybody can develop chronic pain. It can happen when you’re young. It can happen when you’re older.

      Sadly, self-blame is often the habitual response when you’re faced with one of the challenges that are the subjects of this book. A treatment didn’t work? Somehow, it’s your fault. You received dismissive care from a doctor? Somehow, you did something wrong at the appointment.

      Blaming yourself for something that isn’t your fault wastes your precious energy. Instead, spend your time doing what you can to ease your symptoms and to build the best life you can for yourself.

      The suggestions and practices that follow will help put an end to the blame game.

      Recognize that a lack of control over much that happens to you is an inescapable reality of the human condition.

      If you had control over what happened to you, you’d order up a lifetime of perfect health. I certainly would. But life doesn’t work that way. At some point, all of us must grapple with health challenges that are beyond our ability to control.

      You are not alone in this. This is simply how and when it happened to you.

      No blame!

      Use Three-Breath Practice to shift your attention from self-blame to what’s happening in your immediate experience.

      This mindfulness practice is easy but powerful. All you need do is pause — and bring your full attention to the physical sensation of three consecutive in-breaths and out-breaths.

      Because the sensations of the breath always occur in the present moment, this practice puts you in the present moment. This prevents you from remaining lost in self-judgmental

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