Category Archives: Health

The MWS Podcast 71: Pete Goble and Rich Flanagan on Pain

Health

Today’s guests are Pete Goble and Rich Flanagan. Pete is a retired nurse and currently a Buddhist Health Care Chaplain. Rich is an Operating Department Practitioner, working in the NHS, specialising in anaesthetics and post-operative recovery. They’re both members of the Middle Way Society and they are here to talk today about how people perceive pain, the assumptions we make about it, how it’s influenced culturally, psychic and physical pain, attitudes and trends in dealing with pain and how this might all relate to the Middle Way.

The book Pete recommended is Pain edited by Frederick Toates and the three links that Rich mentioned are What is Pain on the British Pain Society Website, the NHS Pain Tool kit and Ways to Manage your Persistent Pain

Peter also has written two posts on pain which you can access here: Pain (1), Pain (2)


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Dan Siegel on integration

Brain, Health, Psychology, Science

Dan Siegel, author of ‘Mindsight’, here offers a scientifically precise take on integration, and on the kind of view of the mind that is needed to make sense of integration. This is well worth a view if you are interested in understanding the working of integration more clearly.  We’re not just talking vague psychobabble here, but something that can be understood quite precisely both in terms of brains and in terms of experience. There is also an interesting transcribed interview with him here.

The MWS Podcast 49: Elizabeth English on Focusing

Health, Meaning, Meditation, Psychology,

Elizabeth English (Locana) is the founder Life at Work, a professional and personal development organisation. She has a  Masters and Doctorate from Oxford University in Buddhology. She’s a certified Nonviolent Communication trainer and, a teacher in Focusing with the British Focusing Teachers’ Association and the Focusing Institute. She’s going to talk to us today about Focusing, what it is, how you practice it, what are its benefits and how it might relate to the Middle Way.


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The MWS Podcast 46: Frank Ledwith – member profile

Health, Member Profile, Podcast, Psychology

In this latest member profile, Frank Ledwith, a retired university teacher and lecturer, talks about his early life, how his career unfolded, his interest and involvement with Buddhism, the work of Stephen Batchelor and what the Middle Way means to him.


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The MWS Podcast 41: Sir Harry Burns on the causes of wellness

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My guest today is Sir Harry Burns, who is the professor of global public health at the University of Strathclyde and a former  Chief Medical Officer for Scotland. He begins by talking to us about why poor people take longer to recover from illness, the causes of inequality in health and the causes of wellness. He then goes on to talk about some solutions that he has implemented alongside other potential ideas and how this all might relate to the Middle Way.

My friend, Willie Grieve first brought the work of Sir Harry to my attention and you can find a very interesting and helpful article by him which gives an overview of the subject here.


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