WHEN Guy Corrigall was two years in remission from non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, he began meditating.
Not just any form of meditation, but mindfulness meditation, an increasingly popular practice for alleviating stress, depression, anxiety, and pain.
In Corrigall's case, he was hoping to curtail the depression that had crept into his life since the diagnosis. "Not that I wanted to throw myself off a tall building, but I had shut myself off from life ... The meditation was a wonderful safe place where I could just go and be," he says.
The 63-year-old financial planner now meditates for 40 minutes every day, and says it comes as naturally as brushing his teeth. "It's not a cure for the cancer, but it helped me accommodate it. It has been enormously rewarding and valuable."
One might assume Corrigall learned his practice in a Buddhist temple or during a yoga retreat, but it was actually at the Sydney Cancer Centre at Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, in the Sydney suburb of Camperdown. (More)
Source: The Australian News
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