Full catastrophe living : using the wisdom of your body and mind to face stress, pain, and illness / Jon Kabat-Zinn.
By: Kabat-Zinn, Jon
.
Contributor(s): University of Massachusetts Medical Center/Worcester. Stress Reduction Clinic
.
Material type: ![materialTypeLabel](/opac-tmpl/lib/famfamfam/BK.png)
![](/opac-tmpl/bootstrap/images/filefind.png)
![](/opac-tmpl/bootstrap/images/filefind.png)
Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
General Lending | MTU Bishopstown Library Lending | 155.9042 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 00163097 |
Browsing MTU Bishopstown Library shelves, Shelving location: Lending Close shelf browser (Hides shelf browser)
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
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.
The program of the Stress Reduction Clinic at the University of Massachusetts Medical Center.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 450-454) and index.
Introduction: Stress, pain and illness: facing the full catastrophe -- Part I: The practice of mindfulness: paying attention -- You have only moments to live -- The foundations of mindfulness practice attitudes and commitment -- The power of breathing: your unsuspected ally in the healing process -- Sitting meditation: nourishing the domain of being -- Being in your body: the body scan technique -- Cultivating strength, balance and flexibility: yoga is meditation -- Walking meditation -- A day of mindfulness -- Really doing that you\'re doing: mindfulness in daily life -- Getting started in the practice -- Part II: The Paradigm: a new way of thinking about health and illness -- Introduction the paradigm -- Glimpses of wholeness, delusions of separateness -- On healing -- Doctors, patients and people: moving toward a unified perspective on health and illness -- Mind and body: evidence that beliefs, attitudes, thoughts and emotions can harm and heal -- Connectedness -- Part III: Stress -- Stress -- Change: one thing you can be sure of -- Stuck in stress reactivity -- Responding to stress instead of reacting -- Part IV: The applications: taking on the full catastrophe -- Working with symptoms: listening to your body -- Working with physical pain: your pain is not you -- More on pain -- Working with emotional pain: your suffering is not you ..but there is much you can do to heal it -- Working with fear, panic and anxiety -- Time and time stress -- Sleep and sleep stress -- People stress -- Role stress -- Work stress -- Food stress -- World stress -- Part V: The way of awareness -- New beginnings -- Keeping up the formal practice -- Keeping up the informal practice -- The way of awareness.
CIT Module COUN 6021 - Core reading
Excerpt provided by Syndetics
Author notes provided by Syndetics
Featured in Bill Moyer's PBS Special Healing and the Mind, Jon Kabat-Zinn, PhD. is executive director at the Center for Mindfulness in Medicine, Health Care and Society at the University of Massachusetts Medical Center. He is the founder and former director of the UMMC Stress Reduction Clinic and an associate professor of medicine in the division of preventive and behavioral medicine.Using mindfulness meditation, Kabat-Zinn works to help people reduce stress and deal with chronic pain, and a variety of illnesses, particularly breast cancer. He was a trainer for the 1984 U.S. Men's Olympic Rowing Team and is especially interested in reducing the stress-related problems in the inner city and in prison populations.
Kabat-Zinn's books include: Full Catastrophe Living: Using the Wisdom of Your Body and Mind to Face Stress, Pain and Illness (1991); Wherever You Go, There You Are: Mindfulness Meditation in Everyday Life (1994), Everyday Blessings: The Inner Work of Mindful Parenting (1997), which was co-authored with his wife, Myla, and Meditation Is Not What You Think: Mindfulness and why it is so important.
(Bowker Author Biography)