Full Catastrophe Living
Book description
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…
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It’s hard for me to explain just how important this book has been in Western culture. Part autobiography, part meditation manual, this book is what popularized the modern mindfulness movement, beginning with Jon’s first forays into teaching ‘secularized’ mindfulness practices in the basement of a medical school building in the late 1970s.
Rather than staying in that basement, Jon’s combination of scientific training, deep commitment to understanding the mechanisms of the mental joy and suffering, and passion for helping others came together to create one of the first and most influential Western meditation training programs: Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction. This program…
From Norman's list on overcoming stress and getting unstuck in life.
Full Catastrophe Living (Revised Edition): Using the Wisdom of Your Body and Mind to Face Stress, Pain, and Illness is a wonderful primer on Mindfulness by Jon Kabat-Zinn, PhD with a Preface by famed Vietnamese Buddhist monk Thich Nhat Hanh. This wonderful book shows how to use ancient modalities like breathwork and Mindfulness to heal the stresses and illnesses of the modern world. It removes the fear some may have that these are meaningless or rooted in superstition or that performing them is somehow in violation of the religion you practice. Dr. Kabat-Zinn anchors the practices in science. This book…
From Regina's list on to live a conscious and directed life.
Yes, I know, we’re all saturated with how we’re all supposed to be meditating. And meditation can still conjure up images of blissed-out navel-gazers. But as a neuropsychologist, I see it as a highly refined form of attentional training—it trains your brain to run less on “autopilot” (where you keep perpetuating habits and thoughts that get in your way). It helps develop better neural pathways that integrate the different regions and functions of your brain so it works better. It slows down age-related loss of brain volume, and… well, there’s a lot more to be said about the brain benefits…
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