Kabat-Zinn, Jon

Discusses the benefits and practices of meditation.

Presents a guide to mindfulness meditation, including information on areas of self-development, self-discovery, learning, and healing through stress reduction and relaxation.

This illustrated collection of more than one hundred verses excerpted from the author's book "Coming to Our Senses" is designed to help readers develop their intuition and understanding of today's complicated world.

"Kabat-Zinn focuses on how mindfulness really can be a tool to transform the world. He explains how democracy thrives in a mindful context, and why mindfulness is a vital tool for both personal and global understanding and action in these tumultuous times"--OCLC.

Answers questions about the mind/body revolution in medicine and health care. Explains how to incorporate them into our hectic, modern lives. By making mindfulness meditation practices part of everyday life, one can enjoy its tangible benefits on the way to a healthier, saner, and more meaningful life.

The landmark work on mindfulness, meditation, and healing, now revised and updated after twenty-five years. Stress. It can sap our energy, undermine our health if we let it, even shorten our lives. It makes us more vulnerable to anxiety and depression, disconnection and disease. Based on Jon Kabat-Zinn's renowned mindfulness-based stress reduction program, this classic, groundbreaking work--which gave rise to a whole new field in medicine and psychology--shows you how to use medically proven mind-body approaches derived from meditation and yoga to counteract stress, establish greater balance of body and mind, and stimulate well-being and healing. By engaging in these mindfulness practices and integrating them into your life from moment to moment and from day to day, you can learn to manage chronic pain, promote optimal healing, reduce anxiety and feelings of panic, and improve the overall quality of your life, relationships, and social networks. This second edition features results from recent studies on the science of mindfulness, a new Introduction, up-to-date statistics, and an extensive updated reading list. Full Catastrophe Living is a book for the young and the old, the well and the ill, and anyone trying to live a healthier and saner life in our fast-paced world.--Publisher description.

"Here, the teacher, scientist, and clinician who first demonstrated the benefits of mindfulness within mainstream Western medicine offers a book that you can use in three unique ways; as a collection of reflections and practices to be opened and explored at random; as an illuminating and engaging start-to-finish read; or as an unfolding 'lesson-a-day' primer on mindfulness practice."--Jacket.

Explains how to meditate, providing exercises and discussing the present moment, non-doing, interconnectedness, karma, anger, parenting, components of meditation practice, and pitfalls along the path to mindfulness.

A collection of mindfulness teachings; accompanying CD includes five guided mindfulness meditations.

Explains how to meditate, providing exercises and discussing the present moment, non-doing, interconnectedness, karma, anger, parenting, components of meditation practice, and pitfalls along the path to mindfulness.