Emma Tracey, BBC: Vidyamala Burch is helping people in pain through the practice of “mindfulness”, the act of paying more attention to the present moment. But it took her many years to discover it for herself first.
When people are having serious difficulties, it can bring out the extreme sides of people’s personalities, says Vidyamala Burch, a 55-year-old pain management practitioner based in Manchester. “One is the denial, pushy, driven side and the other is the more passive, overwhelmed, depressive side.”
Burch lives with chronic …
