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Research
Meditation and Parkinson’s Research: Psychological, Motor, Cognitive and Biological Benefits
Practice
Practising Meditation with Parkinson’s: Adapting to a Changing Body
Contemplation
Stephen Jenkinson’s Trembling, Still is a deeply personal and contemplative account of living with Parkinson’s disease and neurodegeneration. Jenkinson is less interested in explaining the disease than in asking what it means to inhabit a body and mind that are changing beyond one’s control. Written in a poetic, sometimes difficult style, the book turns his diagnosis into a meditation on five recurring themes: impermanence, embodiment, uncertainty, limitation, and attention in adversity. Parkinson’s is the circumstance of the book, but not ultimately its subject: as Jenkinson himself puts it, this is not a book about neurodegeneration but one “caused by neurodegeneration.” His particular experience becomes a way of contemplating the universal experience of being embodied, vulnerable and alive.