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Full Catastrophe Living: Using the Wisdom of Your Body and Mind to Face Stress, Pain, and Illness
Jon Kabat-Zinn
4.08 AVERAGE
82 reviews for:
Full Catastrophe Living: Using the Wisdom of Your Body and Mind to Face Stress, Pain, and Illness
Jon Kabat-Zinn
4.08 AVERAGE
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Consistent meditation has always been challenging for me so I approached this book as my "meditation time". I'd read for 15-20 minutes practicing my breathing and being aware and then try to take that mindset into each of my days. Jon Kabat-Zinn is really good at what he does. It's amazing to me that he wrote this very thorough book 30 years ago before meditation and yoga was part of mainstream living. That said, there was a couple of parts I questioned...'Can our brain/stressors really control that much of our health?' I do believe stress can make things oh so much worse though, but beyond that it seems like soft science. Also, it was sooooo long. So Long!!! 600 pages! But a lot of amazing insight. It is very thorough and as I was reading I couldn't help but think I would jump at a chance to go to one of these 8 week courses.
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All-encompassing book about the holistic living.
Highly recommend the second chapter about the tenants of mindfulness practise.
Highly recommend the second chapter about the tenants of mindfulness practise.
"When you walk the path of awareness, you are bringing a systematic consciousness to the experience of living that only makes living more vibrant, more real. The fact that no one ever taught you how to do this or told you that it was worth doing is immaterial. When you are ready for this quest, it finds you." -JKZ
This book was assigned reading during the first semester of my Master's degree in Mindfulness Studies. It is a foundational, groundbreaking book that will be an ongoing part of my practice and part of my life. I highly recommend reading this book to anyone who is interested in understanding the benefits of mindfulness and how to begin a mindfulness practice. Although it is a big book, it is extremely approachable and easy to read. Instruction, theory, and anecdotes weave together seamlessly in this important body of work.
This book was assigned reading during the first semester of my Master's degree in Mindfulness Studies. It is a foundational, groundbreaking book that will be an ongoing part of my practice and part of my life. I highly recommend reading this book to anyone who is interested in understanding the benefits of mindfulness and how to begin a mindfulness practice. Although it is a big book, it is extremely approachable and easy to read. Instruction, theory, and anecdotes weave together seamlessly in this important body of work.
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It's horrible how a beautiful philosophy and way of life gets reduced to a vehicle for the biopsychosocial model.
Only read this book if you have a morbid curiosity for the history of medicine (like I do). Jon Kabat-Zinn is one of the founders of the BPS model and it is fascinating to read how he appropriated several Buddhist and Hinduist practices to provide a treatment modality that suits that model even better than regular cognitive behavioral therapy. But yeah, if you have ME or another ununderstood disease, steer well clear of the bullshit contained within this book.
Yes, bullshit. You can't reason your way out of survivor bias, selection bias, inappropriate control groups, non standardization of interventions -- or even, non significant differences (such as with the telomere study).
Full disclosure: yes, I do meditate.
Only read this book if you have a morbid curiosity for the history of medicine (like I do). Jon Kabat-Zinn is one of the founders of the BPS model and it is fascinating to read how he appropriated several Buddhist and Hinduist practices to provide a treatment modality that suits that model even better than regular cognitive behavioral therapy. But yeah, if you have ME or another ununderstood disease, steer well clear of the bullshit contained within this book.
Yes, bullshit. You can't reason your way out of survivor bias, selection bias, inappropriate control groups, non standardization of interventions -- or even, non significant differences (such as with the telomere study).
Full disclosure: yes, I do meditate.