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Health & Fitness. Self-Improvement. Nonfiction. HTML: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-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 second 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. Praise for Full Catastrophe Living �To say that this wise, deep book is helpful to those who face the challenges of human crisis would be a vast understatement. It is essential, unique, and, above all, fundamentally healing.��Donald M. Berwick, M.D., president emeritus and senior fellow, Institute for Healthcare Improvement �One of the great classics of mind/body medicine.��Rachel Naomi Remen, M.D., author of Kitchen Table Wisdom �A book for everyone . . . Jon Kabat-Zinn has done more than any other person on the planet to spread the power of mindfulness to the lives of ordinary people and major societal institutions.��Richard J. Davidson, founder and chair, Center for Investigating Healthy Minds, University of Wisconsin�Madison �This is the ultimate owner�s manual for our lives. What a gift!��Amy Gross, former editor in chief, O: The Oprah Magazine �I first read Full Catastrophe Living in my early twenties and it changed my life.��Chade-Meng Tan, Jolly Good Fellow of Google and author of Search Inside Yourself �Jon Kabat-Zinn�s classic work on the practice of mindfulness to alleviate stress and human suffering stands the test of time, a most useful resource and practical guide. I recommend this new edition enthusiastically to doctors, patients, and anyone interested in learning to use the power of focused awareness to meet life�s challenges, whether great or small.��Andrew Weil, M.D., author of Spontaneous Happiness and 8 Weeks to Optimum Health �How wonderful to have a new and updated version of this classic book that invited so many of us down a path that transformed our minds and awakened us to the beauty of each moment, day-by-day, through our lives. This second edition, building on the first, is sure to become a treasured sourcebook and traveling companion for new generations who seek the wisdom to live full and fulfilling lives.��Diana Chapman Walsh, Ph.D., president emerita of Wellesley College.… (more)
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In groping to describe that aspect of human condition that patients in the stress clinic and, in fact, most of us, at one time or another, need to come to terms with and in some way transcend, I keep coming back to one line from the movie of Nikos Kazantzakis;s novel Zorba the Greek. Zorba's young companion turns to him at a certain point and inquires, "Zorba, have you ever been married?" to which Zorba replies (paraphrasing somewhat) "Am I not a man? Of course I've been married. Wife , house, kids, everything..the full catastrophe!"
It was not meant to be a lament, nor does it mean that being married or having children is a catastrophe. Zorba's response embodies a supreme appreciation for the richness of life and the inevitability of all its dilemmas, sorrows, tragedies, and ironies. (pg 5)
That's a view of catastrophe I can live with.
the chapters on dealing w pain were particularly good, and its nice that it gives relatively simple and direct instructions for different sorts of meditation
but there r far better sources for such instructions, and i far prefer the
the book claims to partake in a revolution in modern science/psychology, but remains trapped in its positivistic reductive outlook, claiming that a "systems view" will save the coherence of scientism. ultimately though, it has nothing but mild platitudes to offer to the making of such a so-called "paradigm shift"