Thanks for this piece, Gareth. It made me think of my father’s last year’s, when his wonderful cancer survivorship doctor also prescribed mindfulness exercises and laughter as ways to cope with the pain and malaise. At an advanced age and with a bad comorbid case of “just world syndrome”, it was tough for him to carry it out. When he could manage it, though, it made a huge difference.
I took a lesson away informally at the time, and your article crystalises a lot of it.
