The landmark work on mindfulness, meditation, and healing, now revised and updated after twenty-five years Stress.
What a gift!"--Amy Gross, former editor in chief, O: The Oprah Magazine "
I first read Full Catastrophe Living in my early twenties and it changed my life."--Chade-Meng Tan, Jolly Good Fellow of Google and author of Search Inside Yourself "
Jon K.
Davidson, founder and chair, Center for Investigating Healthy Minds, University of Wisconsin-Madison "
This is the ultimate owner's manual for our lives.
Jon Kabat-Zinn has done more than any other person on the planet to spread the power of mindfulness to the lives of ordinary people and major societal institutions."--Richard J. . .
Berwick, M.
D., president emeritus and senior fellow, Institute for Healthcare Improvement "
One of the great classics of mind/body medicine."--Rachel Naomi Remen, M.
D., author of Kitchen Table Wisdom "
A book for everyone .
It is essential, unique, and, above all, fundamentally healing."--Donald M.
Praise for Full Catastrophe Living "
To say that this wise, deep book is helpful to those who face the challenges of human crisis would be a vast understatement.
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.
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.
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.
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.
It makes us more vulnerable to anxiety and depression, disconnection and disease.
It can sap our energy, undermine our health if we let it, even shorten our lives.
The landmark work on mindfulness, meditation, and healing, now revised and updated after twenty-five years Stress
