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Full Catastrophe Living: Using the Wisdom of Your Body and Mind to Face Stress, Pain, and Illness |  | Author: Jon Kabat-Zinn
Publisher: Delta
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Media: Paperback
Pages: 512
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Dimensions (in): 9.1 x 6.1 x 1.2
ISBN: 0385303122
Dewey Decimal Number: 155.9042
EAN: 9780385303125
ASIN: 0385303122
Publication Date: June 1, 1990
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Kabat-Zinn, founder of the Stress Reduction Clinic at the University of Massachusetts Medical Center, is perhaps the best-known proponent of using meditation to help patients deal with illness. (The somewhat confusing title is from a line in Zorba the Greek in which the title character refers to the ups and downs of family life as "the full catastrophe.") But this book is also a terrific introduction for anyone who has considered meditating but was afraid it would be too difficult or would include religious practices they found foreign. Kabat-Zinn focuses on "mindfulness," a concept that involves living in the moment, paying attention, and simply "being" rather than "doing." While you can practice anything "mindfully," from taking a walk to cleaning your house, Kabat-Zinn presents several meditation techniques that focus the attention most clearly, whether it's on a simple phrase, your breathing, or various parts of your body. The book goes into detail about how hospital patients have either improved their health or simply come to feel better despite their illness by using these techniques, but these meditations can help anyone deal with stress and gain a calmer outlook on life. "When we use the word healing to describe the experiences of people in the stress clinic, what we mean above all is that they are undergoing a profound transformation of view," Kabat-Zinn writes. "Out of this shift in perspective comes an ability to act with greater balance and inner security in the world." --Ben Kallen
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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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Cookin in my (Arizona United States)
I love buying used books whenever possible - this book arrived in excellent condition, as described.
Will change your perspective and enrich how you experience life! July 4, 2010
bezen
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
An excellent introduction to the mind-body relationship, delivered in easy to read, layman terms. After reading this book, you will be ready to embark on your own daily meditation journey and to re-claim the moments of your life.
excellence of program made me overlook flaws in book July 1, 2010
Sarah Haussermann
Jon Kabat-Zinn used to run an 8-week stress-reduction clinic at the University of Massachusetts Medical Center. "Full Catastrophe Living" details his experiences and gives instructions for replicating the 8-week program on your own.
This book is dated. It's not organized optimally. It's also repetitive. But if the program works for you like it did for me, you won't give a toss about those flaws.
If you want to try this program, buy the book and the companion CD set, which is sold separately and called "Guided Mindfulness Meditation." (See my review of the CD set for reasons why it is indispensable.) And be willing to put an hour and a half of your day into this, every day, for 8 weeks.
Having spent thousands on medical bills recently, I found the price of this book and the CD set a bargain. What's more, the program helped me more than any of the medical stuff. And it gave me tools to help myself, so it keeps on helping. I highly recommend it.
An Awesome Book About Mindfulness and Healing June 21, 2010
Anne M. Bennett (Beverly, MA USA)
After my own treatments for breast cancer in 2002, I became very interested in meditation and the practice of mindfulness. This book really helped me with that, and it also really helped me to see the stress I was living in, and to find ways to do something about it. There IS wisdom in my body and in my mind, and I am learning, slowly, to tap into it for healing and stress reduction. In my opinion, everything that Jon Kabat-Zinn writes is golden, and this book is no exception.
--- Anne Marie Bennett, author of Bright Side of the Road: A Spiritual Journey Through Breast Cancer
A classic, helpful and pragmatic book on mindfulness May 5, 2010
Harry M. Shin (Livermore, CA USA)
1. Without going into the nitty gritty of mindfulness, this is a book that all would do well to read and incorporate into one's daily lives.
2. It's well written without too much jargon by one of the leaders in mindfulness practice (at least in America). Highly recommended.
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