Full catastrophe living : using the wisdom of your body and mind to face stress, pain, and illness / Jon Kabat-Zinn, Ph. D.

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The landmark work on mindfulness, meditation, and healing, now revised and updated after twenty-five years. Stress. It can sap our energy, undermine our health if we let it, even shorten our lives. It makes us more vulnerable to anxiety and depression, disconnection and disease. Based on Jon Kabat-Z...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Kabat-Zinn, Jon (Author)
Language:English
Published: New York : Bantam Books, [2013]
Edition:Revised and updated edition.
Subjects:
Stress management.
Stress (Psychology)
Self-care, Health.
Stress, Psychological > Therapy.
Stress, Psychological > therapy.
Mental Healing.
Self Care.
Physical Description:xlv, 650 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Stress, pain, and illness : facing the full catastrophe
  • The practice of mindfulness : paying attention. You have only moments to live ; The foundations of mindfulness practice : attitudes and commitment ; The power of breathing : your unsuspected ally in the healing process ; Sitting meditation : nourishing the domain of being ; Being in your body : the body-scan meditation ; Cultivating strength, balance, and flexibility : yoga is meditation ; Walking meditation ; A day of mindfulness ; Really doing what you're doing : mindfulness in daily life ; Getting started in the practice
  • The paradigm : a new way of thinking about health and illness. Introduction to the paradigm ; Glimpses of wholeness, delusions of separateness ; On healing ; Doctors, patients, and people : moving toward a unified perspective on health and illness ; Mind and body : evidence that beliefs, attitudes, thoughts, and emotions can harm or heal ; Connectedness and interconnectedness
  • Stress. Stress ; Change : the one thing you can be sure of ; Stuck in stress reactivity ; Responding to stress instead of reacting
  • The applications : taking on the full catastrophe. Working with symptoms : listening to your body ; Working with physical pain : your pain is not you ; More on working with pain ; Working with emotional pain : your suffering is not you ... but there is much you can do to heal it ; Working with fear, panic, and anxiety ; Time and time stress ; Sleep and sleep stress ; People stress ; Role stress ; Work stress ; Food stress ; World stress
  • The way of awareness. New beginnings ; Keeping up the formal practice ; Keeping up the informal practice ; The way of awareness.