After reading this book, you will want to own several copies to lend or give to your friends. Shinzen Young writes about his personal experience with chronic pain and provides guidance on how to respond to discomfort and the reactions we experience when we experience discomfort. The book comes with a CD that has several tracks on how to meditate, or how to think, feel, and observe ourselves when we are in pain. Each track on the CD approaches the issue in a different way. One track looks at our emotional responses, and he gentle talks the listener through ways to observe the many (sometimes overlapping) emotions and accept or work with them. Another track, for those in extreme discomfort, simply guides the listener through ways of breathing. Advanced tracks on the CD guide the listener through additional ways of meditating on how pain travels through the body.I have the tracks from this CD on my iPod. It's helpful to be able to listen to any track wherever I go, when I am in pain. Shinzen Young has a calming voice. Even rereading the book helps to diminish that sense of isolation that comes with chronic pain. I highly recommend this book for people living with chronic pain or for those people who take care of someone with chronic pain. ( )