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Full Catastrophe Living: Using the Wisdom of Your Body and Mind to Face Stress, Pain, and Illness (平装)
by Jon Kabat-Zinn
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Amazon.com, USA
<2008-01-29 00:00>
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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Publishers Weekly, USA
<2008-01-29 00:00>
Kabat-Zinn is founder and director of the stress reduction program at the University of Massachusetts Medical Center, and the "full catastrophe" of which he writes is the spectrum of stress in life. His program, in a word, is meditation, rescued from the mire of mysticism that made it trendy in the 1960s. The author focuses on the advantages of employing "practiced mindfulness" to control and calm our responses without blunting our feelings--and a more convincing introduction to the many modes and uses of meditation could hardly be imagined. In personable, enlightening prose, Kabat-Zinn first explains how to develop a meditation schedule, and in later chapters pragmatically applies his plan to the main sources of stress. An impressive middle section clearly marshals scientific and anecdotal evidence relating state of mind to state of health. And while emphasizing meditation's healing potential, Kabat-Zinn makes no sweeping claims, suggesting that the discipline serve not as means but end. Illustrations not seen by PW. BOMC and QPB selection.
Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc. -This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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Joseph Goldstein, author of One Dharma, USA
<2008-01-29 00:00>
A practical guide not only to mindfulness meditation and healing, but daily life. |
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Dean Ornish, M.D., author of Dr. Dean Ornish’s Program for the Reversal of Heart Disease , USA
<2008-01-29 00:00>
Dr. Jon Kabat-Zinn eloquently explains the power of paying attention and increasing awareness. I strongly recommend this book for everyone who wants to begin healing their life. |
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The Inside Flap, USA
<2008-01-29 00:00>
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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D. Edgar (MSL quote), USA
<2008-01-29 00:00>
This is the best book I ever read. Five star for sure!
It has change my life! I am now a better person, if everybody in this world would use this book. It certainly be a better world! It is the best book to quide you in life, when you cannot cope anymore!
I must thank the author, for his marvelous work, this book saved my live!
Thank you!, Thank you! |
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Rob (MSL quote), USA
<2008-01-29 00:00>
This book depicts a program which will no doubt lead to you internal peace and allow you to transcend the suffocation of a life of pain - which probably means that you are also buried under the stress of living with pain, limited your coping ability for normal living. It has helped me to finally move toward a place that I always knew was out there, but could not find a way to reach. It has allowed me to overcome the barriers which have held me back in all avenues of my life, all of my life. Really do it, though, and really mean it.
Highly recommended.
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A reader (MSL quote), USA
<2008-01-29 00:00>
Self help seems too good to be true? Never take advice unless you get it from a Church or a Doctor's office? Reading a book wont help? Time to try someting new. The concepts in this book work. You supply the practice. This is a journey well worth taking. If you never read another book, you'll be glad you read this one! |
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Saki (MSL quote), USA
<2008-01-29 00:00>
This is an extraordinary work, which will be of immense value to those suffering pain or grave illness. Its value lies in very practical, repeat practical, advice based on clinical practice and experience which have benefited many. It is original and pathbreaking. Above all, it holds out hope to those who may have abandoned it.
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Max Spencer (MSL quote), USA
<2008-01-29 00:00>
Our lives are chaotic enough, but catastrophes shake us to the core. This book is a straightforward, not preachy, guide to making it through stress and the other obstacles life throws at us. I also recommend reading "Home in One Piece" by John Thompson and Lance Armstrong's, "It's not about the Bike". |
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