Healing the Painful Mind with Breathing Exercise: Being in the Pain

by Soom Dong

How can you lessen or eliminate your pain? You can't. While medical technology helps you cope with the pain to a certain extent, it cannot remove the pain wholly and forever.It is possible, however, to be with your pain. You can live with it, accept the existence of it, and be in the pain. That is the essence of meditation, the awareness. Meditation is not a difficult exercise. How can you not dislike the pain when pain is too painful? This book introduces how you can willingly be with pain in a systematic way.

85 pages, Kindle Edition

Published December 5, 2020

Reviews

[Johan Kwok · Rating 2 out of 5]

Felt like a somewhat incoherent compilation of Youtube videos. Still, wanted to finish it in a whim, just because of that post on Reddit. He wrote a book and wanted to share it on r/Meditation, so why not just see what he had to offer, right?

New ideas to me, worth mentioning:

-Suppressing thoughts and emotions might have its place, contrary to the usual literature(when neurosis is severe, or when things are tough, I guess).
-The concept of Breath Exercises being a essential prerequisite in order to do the Mind Exercises. This fact giving me some clarity of when to transition, instilling some confidence and how important it is to make it the "foundation" of everything. So when everything feels meaningless and you want to tune out and run away, at least you have the almighty mindfulness of the breath to keep you going.