I have just finished reading Teach Us to Sit Still by Tim Parks. As in the title, this book is about 'A sceptic's search for health and healing'.
The author, an academic who teaches translation at university, definitely wasn't into anything 'new age'. Yoga and meditation were for hippies, and the last place he thought we would find the answer to his pain.
"Just when the medical profession had given up in me and I on it, just when I seemed to be walled up in a life sentence of chronic pain, someone proposed a bizarre way out: Sit still, they said, and breathe..."
It seemed to highlight how we have lost touch with our bodies, and how this can eventually lead to illness. For Parks, meditation was a last resort, almost in desperation to find some sort of relief from his pain.
One of the best things you can do for yourself is to sit still in silence for 5 or 10 minutes a day - try it!
Teach Us to Sit Still: A Sceptic's Search for Health And Healing
Tim Parks
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