Full Catastrophe Living (Revised Edition): Using the Wisdom of Your Body and Mind to Face Stress, Pain, and IllnessThe landmark work on how to connect your mind and body to reduce stress and lead a more fulfilling, healthy, and complete life—now revised and updated Featuring a preface from Thich Nhat Hanh “This wise, deep book is essential, unique, and, above all, fundamentally healing.”—Donald M. Berwick, M.D., president emeritus and senior fellow, Institute for Healthcare Improvement 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-Zinn’s renowned mindfulness-based stress reduction program, this classic, groundbreaking work—which gave rise to a whole new field in medicine and psychology—shows you how to use medically proven mind-body approaches derived from meditation and yoga to counteract stress, establish greater balance of body and mind, and stimulate well-being and healing. By engaging in these mindfulness practices and integrating them into your life from moment to moment and from day to day, you can learn to manage chronic pain, promote optimal healing, reduce anxiety and feelings of panic, and improve the overall quality of your life, relationships, and social networks. This revised edition features results from recent studies on the science of mindfulness, a new Introduction, up-to-date statistics, and an extensive updated reading list. Full Catastrophe Living is a book for the young and the old, the well and the ill, and anyone trying to live a healthier and saner life in our fast-paced world. |
Contents
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You Have Only Moments to Live | 3 |
Attitudes | 19 |
Your Unsuspected Ally | 39 |
Nourishing the Domain of Being | 54 |
The BodyScan Meditation | 75 |
Yoga | 98 |
Stuck in Stress Reactivity | 306 |
Responding to Stress Instead of Reacting | 335 |
Taking on the Full Catastrophe | 351 |
Listening to Your Body | 353 |
Your Pain Is Not You | 361 |
More on Working with Pain | 386 |
Your Suffering Is Not You But There Is Much You Can Do to Heal It | 411 |
Working with Fear Panic and Anxiety | 430 |
Walking Meditation | 123 |
A Day of Mindfulness | 132 |
Mindfulness in Daily Life | 147 |
Getting Started in the Practice | 156 |
A New Way of Thinking About Health and Illness | 167 |
Introduction to the Paradigm | 169 |
Glimpses of Wholeness Delusions of Separateness | 175 |
On Healing | 193 |
Moving Toward a Unified Perspective on Health and Illness | 219 |
Evidence That Beliefs Attitudes Thoughts and Emotions Can Harm or Heal | 242 |
Connectedness and Interconnectedness | 269 |
Stress | 285 |
Stress | 287 |
The One Thing You Can Be Sure Of | 297 |
Time and Time Stress | 452 |
Sleep and Sleep Stress | 470 |
People Stress | 478 |
Role Stress | 495 |
Work Stress | 502 |
Food Stress | 516 |
World Stress | 538 |
New Beginnings | 565 |
Keeping Up the Formal Practice | 575 |
Keeping Up the Informal Practice | 586 |
The Way of Awareness | 592 |
Ordering Information | 633 |
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