Full Catastrophe Living: Using the Wisdom of Your Body and Mind to Face Stress, Pain, and Illness...

Full Catastrophe Living: Using the Wisdom of Your Body and Mind to Face Stress, Pain, and Illness | Jon Kabat-Zinn | Important, inspiring and uplifting read

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	Full Catastrophe Living: Using the Wisdom of Your Body and Mind to Face Stress, Pain, and Illness Jon Kabat-Zinn Delta, 1990 - 512 pages average customer review:based on 50 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

If you need to relax or deal with stress

If you need to find a way to deal with stress--and who doesn't?--Jon Kabat-Zinn's boks and audiobooks are for you. This is the first one he published, and it may be the best. He is a real pioneer in taking the practices of meditation and turning them into systematic stress relief for people who really need it. He is an M.D., and has run the department on handling stress disorders and issues at Massachusetts General Hospital for a number of years. Unlike methods like Transcendal Meditation, he has tried to secularize religious methods (in this case Buddhist ones) into methods that can be used by anyone with any background. He is the one stress therapist who writes and produces audio CD's who really provides stress relief for me. All his books and tapes are good, but this one was first and is especially good.

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Important, inspiring and uplifting read

This practical book is a great resource to have. It teaches the importance of mindfulness, which is crucial for living in a balanced way amongst the difficulties of life. It is powerful, healing and transformative.

Inspirational and practical

This book is full of wonderful wisdom on the theory and practice of developing a mindful, nonjudgmental, peaceful attitude toward oneself and others. It helped me to see the practice of meditation as nonmysterious and attainable. A great resource for enhancing the mind, body and spirit.

Meditation for Healing

Comprehensible summary of practical application of meditation and eastern philosophy. The book focuses on making pain, illness or general everyday stress more manageable.

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The right book at exactly the right time.

I decided to read this book as a result of discovering that my pregnancy was high risk and that I was very likely going to be confined to the house for the coming 4-5 months. A friend of mine, in recovery for cancer, had found a lot of comfort and strength from its ideas and appraoch.

I have to say that it was extremely useful. I would recommend it highly to anyone in similar circumstances. Simple things like the breathing and the body scan exercises helped me get through some very painful nights. While I haven't embraced it as fully as perhaps I should, parts of it are already helpfully embedded into my daily routine.

I give the book four stars because while the book is a good introduction to the ideas, it is really not complete without the tapes to aid in the exercises and meditation. If you really intend to use the book, I would recommend that you also purchase the other resources.

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