Private Pain Consultation

 

Private consultations on pain and the despair resulting from living with chronic pain are available from Darlene Cohen, either on a regular or a one-time basis.

Subjects covered in consultations are:
Personal instruction and/or support needed by the client
Access to the curriculum of the "Suffering & Delight" meditation groups for people in pain, as follows:

• Meditations on delight

• The importance of ecstasy in a life of pain

• Comfort: Objects and Experiences

• The effect of creative expression on pain

• Living a satisfying life in the midst of misery

• Fear and terror

• Exhaustion and rest

• Self-empowerment in dealing with the medical community

• The issue of control

• Formal meditation practice: instruction in traditional meditation practices and the development of stability

• Mindful living: specific focusing skills (eating, working, moving, interaction with others, and walking meditations)

• Cultivating nurturing relationships

• Making choices that increase energy and relieve fatigue

• Neurological exercises, highly personalized, to relieve pain

• Refining one's consciousness to appreciate pleasure

• Dealing with the anger pain provokes

• Living from the body's point of view

• Dealing with other people's suffering
  
  
  
  Fee: $125/hr; $70/one-half hr
  Please call 707-869-3787 or email info@darlenecohen.net for an appointment.