Full Catastrophe Living, Revised Edition: How to cope with stress, pain and illness using mindfulness meditation
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Full Catastrophe Living, Revised Edition: How to cope with stress, pain and illness using mindfulness meditation
But certainly one element contributing to their improvement might well be that they are challenged to do something for themselves for a change to enhance their own health. This facet of their experience in MBSR is a radical departure from the passive role most people assume or are forced into during treatment in the health care system. As we have
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If the painful sensations in a particular region do change in some way, see if you can note precisely what the qualities of that change are. Let them register fully in your awareness and keep going with the body scan. It is not helpful to expect pain to disappear. In fact, it is helpful not to expect anything at all. But you may find that the
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Tony Schwartz, author and longtime student of performance and excellence in business, writes in the New York Times that studies show that “paradoxically, the best way to get more done may be to spend more time doing less…. strategic renewal— including daytime workouts, short afternoon naps, longer sleep hours, more time away from the office, and
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“the true value of a human being is determined primarily by the measure and sense in which he has attained liberation from the self.”
Jon Kabat-Zinn • Full Catastrophe Living, Revised Edition: How to cope with stress, pain and illness using mindfulness meditation
The answer is simple and not at all far-fetched: well-being, inner balance, and peacefulness exist outside time.
Jon Kabat-Zinn • Full Catastrophe Living, Revised Edition: How to cope with stress, pain and illness using mindfulness meditation
If you are having a lot of trouble sleeping, your body may be trying to tell you something about the way you are conducting your life. As with all other mind-body symptoms, this message is worth listening to. Usually it is just a signal that you are going through a stressful time in your life and you can expect that if and when it is resolved, your
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can be especially instructive to take note of those thoughts that are centered on or driven by personal pronouns, especially I, me, or mine thoughts, observing carefully how self-centered the content of those thoughts may be. How are you in relationship to those thoughts when you simply note them as thoughts in the field of awareness and don’t take
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We do this in a particular way, which might be called giving them wise attention. Wise attention involves bringing the stability, calmness, and clarity of mindfulness to our symptoms and to our reactions to them, and not taking personally events and circumstances that are not really personal. We call it “wise” to distinguish it from the usual type
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“stimulus-independent thought” or “mind wandering” appears to be the brain’s default mode of operation.