Dr. Rick Hanson and Forrest speak with Vidyamala Burch, co-founder of Breathworks, which offers mindfulness-based approaches to living well with chronic pain, illness or stress. The organization grew out of her own experience with chronic pain as a partial paraplegic, and adapts principles from Mindfulness-based Stress Reduction and Mindfulness-based Cognitive Therapy.

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Timestamps:

00:58: Vidyamala's story.

04:55: The story behind Breathworks' approach.

12:08: Basic techniques and practices Breathworks teaches.

15:51: Why doesn't mindfulness make pain worse? Why would I want to be mindful of my pain?

19:20: The power of fully coming into an experience of self.

26:58: General advice for managing chronic pain. 

32:45: How to keep going through the bad days. 

38:20: Recap

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