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Featured on Bill Moyer's PBS special Healing and the Mind, this practical guide to mindfulness, meditation and healing from the author of the bestselling Wherever You Go, There You Are is a classic in the field of alternative medicine.
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As I look around at the thirty or so people in this new class in the stress clinic, I marvel at what we are coming to engage in together.
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Introduction: Stress, Pain, and Illness: Facing the Full Catastrophe
I. The Practice of Mindfulness: Paying Attention
1. You Have Only Moments to Live
2. The Foundations of Mindfulness Practice: Attitudes and Commitment
3. The Power of Breathing: Your Unsuspected Ally in the Healing Process
4. Sitting Meditation: Nourishing the Domain of Being
5. Being in Your Body: The Body-Scan Technique
6. Cultivating Strength, Balance, and Flexibility: Yoga Is Meditation
7. Walking Meditation
8. A Day of Mindfulness
9. Really Doing What You're Doing: Mindfulness in Daily Life
10. Getting Started in the Practice
II. The Paradigm: A New Way of Thinking About Health and Illness
11. Introduction to the Paradigm
12. Glimpses of Wholeness, Delusions of Separateness
13. On Healing
14. Doctors, Patients, and People: Moving Toward a Unified Perspective on Health and Illness
15. Mind and Body: Evidence That Beliefs, Attitudes, Thoughts, and Emotions Can Harm or Heal
16. Connectedness
III. Stress
17. Stress
18. Change: One Thing You Can Be Sure of
19. Stuck in Stress Reactivity
20. Responding to Stress Instead of Reacting
IV. The Applications: Taking on the Full Catastrophe
21. Working With Symptoms: Listening to Your Body
22. Working With Physical Pain: Your Pain is Not You
23. More on Pain
24. Working With Emotional Pain: Your Suffering is Not You....But There is Much You Can Do to Heal It
25. Working With Fear, Panic, and Anxiety
26. Time and Time Stress
27. Sleep and Sleep Stress
28. People Stress
29. Role Stress
30. Work Stress
31. Food Stress
32. World Stress
V. The Way of Awareness
33. New Beginnings
34. Keeping Up the Formal Practice
35. Keeping Up the Informal Practice
36. The Way of Awareness
Appendix
Awareness Calendars
Reading List
Authors & Contributors edit
- Jon Kabat-Zinn (Author)
First Edition edit
Original Language: English
Publisher: Delta
Country: USA
Publication Date: May 1, 1990
ISBN: 978-0385303125
Page Count: 512 pages
Publisher: Delta
Country: USA
Publication Date: May 1, 1990
ISBN: 978-0385303125
Page Count: 512 pages
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- Dewey: 155.9042
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