Amazon.com Review: 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
Product Description: 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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Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 155.9042 EAN: 9780385303125 ISBN: 0385303122 Label: Delta Manufacturer: Delta Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 512 Publication Date: June 01, 1990 Publisher: Delta Release Date: May 01, 1990 Studio: Delta
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An essential read
This classic explores mindfulness in detail, and elaborates on the practical application of mindfulness to improve our lives. It brings mindfulness out of the monasteries and into real life, which is exactly where it needs to be and what the Buddha wanted.Mindfulness meditation is a practical tool that can benefit us with the real challenges of life. You might also like to read the in-depth exploration of the theory and practice of mindfulness by Dr Peter Strong in 'The Path of Mindfulness Meditation.' ... Read More