Download Full Catastrophe Living: Using the Wisdom of Your Body and Mind to Face Stress, Pain, and Illness AudioBook Free
The landmark work on mindfulness, meditation, and healing, now revised and updated after twenty-five years
Stress. It can sap our energy, undermine our health and wellness if we let it, even shorten our lives. It makes us more susceptible to anxiety and depression, disconnection and disease. Predicated 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—demonstrates how to utilize medically proven mind-body approaches derived from meditation and yoga to counteract stress, establish greater balance of mind and body, and stimulate well-being and healing. By participating in these mindfulness practices and integrating them into your life from moment to moment and from daily, you can learn to manage chronic pain, promote optimal healing, reduce anxiety and feelings of panic, and increase the overall quality you will ever have, relationships, and internet sites. This second edition features results from recent studies on the science of mindfulness, a new Introduction, up-to-date statistics, and an intensive updated reading list. Full Catastrophe Living is a book for the young and the old, the well and the ill, and anyone aiming to live a wholesome and saner life in our fast-paced world.
Praise for Full Catastrophe Living
“To say that wise, deep book is effective to prospects who face the challenges of human crisis will be a vast understatement. It is essential, unique, and, most importantly, fundamentally healing.”—Donald M. 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 everybody . . . Jon Kabat-Zinn did more than other person on the planet to spread the power of mindfulness to the lives of ordinary people and major societal institutions.”—Richard J. Davidson, founder and chair, Center for Investigating Healthy Minds, University of Wisconsin–Madison
“This is actually the ultimate owner’s manual for our lives. What a gift!”—Amy Gross, former editor in chief, O: The Oprah Magazine
“I first read Full Catastrophe Living in my own early twenties and it changed my life.”—Chade-Meng Tan, Jolly Good Fellow of Google and author of Search Inside Yourself
“Jon Kabat-Zinn’s classic work on the practice of mindfulness to ease stress and human suffering stands the test of time, a most readily useful resource and practical guide. I would recommend this new edition enthusiastically to doctors, patients, and anyone thinking about understanding how to use the power of focused awareness to meet life’s challenges, whether great or small.”—Andrew Weil, M.D., author of Spontaneous Happiness and 8 Weeks to Optimum Health
“How wonderful to truly have a new and updated version of the classic book that invited so most of us down a path that transformed our minds and awakened us to the wonder of every moment, day-by-day, through our lives. This second edition, building on the first, will become a treasured sourcebook and traveling companion for new generations who seek the wisdom to reside in full and fulfilling lives.”—Diana Chapman Walsh, Ph.D., president emerita of Wellesley College
