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
Over time, try extending the time you sit until you can sit for thirty minutes or longer. But remember, when you are really in the present moment, there is no time, so clock time is not as important as your willingness to pay attention and ride the waves of your breathing as best you can, moment by moment and breath by breath.
Jon Kabat-Zinn • Full Catastrophe Living, Revised Edition: How to cope with stress, pain and illness using mindfulness meditation
Our thought patterns can have a profound influence on how we see ourselves and others, what we think is possible, how confident we feel in our own ability to learn and grow and take action in our lives, even how happy we are, or aren’t.
Jon Kabat-Zinn • Full Catastrophe Living, Revised Edition: How to cope with stress, pain and illness using mindfulness meditation
Perhaps the most remarkable thing about yoga is how much energy you feel after you do it. You can be feeling exhausted, do some yoga, and feel completely rejuvenated in a short period of time.
Jon Kabat-Zinn • Full Catastrophe Living, Revised Edition: How to cope with stress, pain and illness using mindfulness meditation
The popular name for the full catastrophe nowadays is stress.
Jon Kabat-Zinn • Full Catastrophe Living, Revised Edition: How to cope with stress, pain and illness using mindfulness meditation
In the old days, if a king didn’t like the message he was given, he would sometimes have the messenger killed. This is tantamount to suppressing your symptoms or your feelings because they are unwanted. Killing the messenger and denying the message or raging against it are not intelligent ways of approaching healing.
Jon Kabat-Zinn • Full Catastrophe Living, Revised Edition: How to cope with stress, pain and illness using mindfulness meditation
We routinely and unknowingly waste enormous amounts of energy in reacting automatically and unconsciously to the outside world and to our own inner experiences. Cultivating mindfulness means learning to tap into and focus our own wasted energies.
Jon Kabat-Zinn • Full Catastrophe Living, Revised Edition: How to cope with stress, pain and illness using mindfulness meditation
When engaged in the body scan or any of the other mindfulness practices, you may come to notice that when you identify with your thoughts or feelings or with the sensations in your body, or with the body itself for that matter, there is much greater turmoil and suffering than when you inhabit the domain of alert and affectionate attention, the doma
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A human being is a part of the whole, called by us “Universe,” a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest—a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons n
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I was often overtired, but I put that out of my mind. I wasn’t concerned about my health. What did I have to worry about?
Jon Kabat-Zinn • Full Catastrophe Living, Revised Edition: How to cope with stress, pain and illness using mindfulness meditation
I was young and healthy, what could happen to me?