 Will change your perspective and enrich how you experience life!
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
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
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
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.
Very Useful - Practical - Effective
"Full Catastrophe Living," is a great book filled with value for everyday living. Surprising in its simplicity. The insights in this book have real-world application. Not mere philosohpy. The techniques offered, when practiced, provide a sense of well being in the face the pain, illness, or stress.
The concept of 'mindfulness' presented in the book, can be practiced (and should be) anywhere, anytime.
Wish I would have read this book long ago.
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