by Tim Parks · Vintage · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780099548881
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«Teach Us to Sit Still: A Sceptic's Search for Health and Healing» is Tim Parks's autobiographical essay, in Vintage paperback (352 pages, in English).
Tim Parks recounts his struggle with chronic pain that conventional medicine cannot explain or relieve. Skeptical of alternative therapies, he eventually finds relief in conscious breathing and meditation, and reflects on the mind-body relationship, modern stress, and how illness marked other writers.
The work was originally published in 2010; the Vintage edition appeared in 2011.
For readers of memoirs and essays on health, wellness and meditation, with a skeptical and literary perspective.
Timothy Harold Parks is a British novelist who has lived in Italy since 1981. He is also an author of nonfiction, a translator from Italian to English, and a professor of literature.
