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

 Stress. It is everywhere around us. Even worse, it gets inside us: sapping our energy, undermining our health, and making us more vulnerable to anxiety, depression, and disease.

Now, based on Dr. Jon Kabat-Zinn’s renowned mindfulness-based stress reduction program, this groundbreaking book shows you how to use natural, medically proven methods to soothe and heal your body, mind, and spirit.

By using the practices described within, you can learn to manage chronic pain resulting from illness and/or stress related disorders
…discover the roles that anger and tension play in heart disease
… reduce anxiety and feelings of panic
…improve overall quality of life and relationships through mindfulness meditation and mindful yoga.

More timely than ever before, Full Catastrophe Living is a book for the young and the old, the well, the ill, and anyone trying to live a healthier and saner life in today’s world.

From the book's Introduction:

"You have only moments to live .. Yet so much of the time, we are out of touch with the richness of the present moment, and the fact that inhabiting this moment, our only moment, with greater awareness shapes the moment to follows, and if we can sustain it, actually shapes the future and the quality of  our lives and relationships in ways that we simply do not appreciate.  The only way we have of influencing the future is to own the present, however we find it.  Then we just might find ways to live the life that is actually ours to live."

"All of us, having minds and bodies, suffer inevitably from one aspect or another of the human condition.  We are all subject to old age, illness and death.  The real question, and the real adventure, is how we live our lives when we have the chance?  And how we work with what comes our way in ways that are healing, that nourish us deeply, and make use of the full spectrum of our experiences, the good, the bad and the ugly... the full catastrophe!  Can we experience joy and satisfaction as well as sorrow and suffering?  What about being at home in our own skin within the maelstrom?  What about tasting ease of well-being, and even genuine happiness?" 

Many people have found the path described by Jon Kabat-Zin to be helpful in dealing with there own version of full catastrophe, medical or otherwise. 

 

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