Full Catrastrophe Living: Using the Wisdom of Your Body and Mind to Face Stress, Pain and Illness
by Jon Kabat-Zinn Ph.D. —
Kabat-Zinn, founder of the internationally renowned Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) program, offers the definitive guide to using mindfulness — moment-to-moment-awareness — in coping with illness and daily tension.
For 25 years, physicians have referred thousands of patients to this program who have experienced improvements in their medical problems such as headaches, back pain, high blood pressure and heart disease.
The book details meditation techniques, including illustrated eight-week practice routines and real-life success stories.
This 15th anniversary edition also highlights advancements and new perspectives on mindfulness and mind-body medicine and has an expanded bibliography and resources section.
You will also learn how mindfulness meditation can be used to take control of chronic pain, reduce anxiety and panic, and improve quality of life, relationships and enthusiasm for living.
This is a perfect guide for taking control of your life through mind over matter.
$20 — Delta Trade Paperback, Bantam Dell Publishing Group, 1745 Broadway, New York, NY 10019.
Reprinted from AzNetNews, Volume 23, Number 1, February/March 2005.
February 8, 2015
Book review, February/March 2005 Issue