Full Catastrophe Living: How to cope with stress, pain and illness using mindfulness meditation
Jon Kabat-Zinn
Language: English
Pages: 402
ISBN: B00GOHIJSS
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
A true breakthrough in the area of behavioural medicine and self control If you are looking for the best available book on this topic, this is it! Alan Marlatt, PhD Professor of Psychology, Director of the Addictive Behaviours Research Centre, University of Washington. In the fifteen years since its initial publication, Full Catastrophe Living has sold over 400,000 copies worldwide. It has established itself both as an excellent beginner's guide to meditation and as the bible for a mind/body movement that has transformed Western medicine. This practical, step-by-step meditation guide is based on a revolutionary eight-week programme called mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR), which stress-relief and meditation expert Jon Kabat-Zinn created at the world-renowned Stress Reduction Clinic at the University of Massachusetts Medical Center, Boston. This fifteenth anniversary edition includes a new introduction along with an expanded bibliography and resources section.
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for you to be doing it), and out of the mindfulness you are bringing to daily living. The body scan is by far the technique that works best at the beginning for people with chronic pain, especially if sitting still or moving are difficult. You can do it lying on your back or in any other convenient outstretched position. Just close your eyes, tune in to your breathing, and watch your belly expand gently on the inbreaths and recede on the outbreaths. Then, as described in Chapter 5, use your
that I felt he really didn’t like me and disapproved of the work I was doing. His response to this was utter amazement. He genuinely had no idea that he had been calling me names and had been giving me the feeling that he didn’t like me and disapproved of the work. As a result of this conversation, our working relationship improved a good deal and became much less stressful for me. We had come to understand each other better, in part because I chose to blend with his attacks rather than resist
Series 2 are also available as audiocassette programs. FULL CATASTROPHE LIVING A Delta Book Published by Bantam Dell A Division of Random House, Inc. New York, New York The quotation from the Introduction by Bernard Lown, M.D., and the quotations from The Healing Heart by Norman Cousins are used with the permission of W.W. Norton & Company, Inc. Copyright 1983 by Norman Cousins. All rights reserved Copyright © 1990 by Jon Kabat-Zinn, Ph.D. Foreword copyright © 1990 by Joan
“see” the solution when a volunteer draws it on the blackboard. When you see or discover for yourself the solution to this problem, especially after you have been struggling with it for a while, there is usually an “aha!” experience at the moment of discovery. This is associated with the realization that the solution lies in extending the lines you draw beyond the imaginary square that the dots make. The problem as stated does not prevent you from going outside the dots, but the “normal”
people to examine their own often very limiting beliefs about themselves and their illnesses and about what might be possible. In this way, our patients come to see that science is confirming what has long been known, namely that each one of us has an important role to play in our own well-being. This role can be more effectively played if we can become conscious of and modify certain aspects of the way we live which can affect our health. These include our attitudes, thoughts, and beliefs; our
