Contents

Preface by Thich Nhat Hanh

Introduction to the Second Edition

Introduction: Stress, Pain, and Illness: Facing the Full Catastrophe

I The Practice of Mindfulness:
Paying Attention

1 You Have Only Moments to Live

2 The Foundations of Mindfulness Practice: Attitudes and Commitment

3 The Power of Breathing: Your Unsuspected Ally in the Healing Process

4 Sitting Meditation: Nourishing the Domain of Being

5 Being in Your Body: The Body-Scan Meditation

6 Cultivating Strength, Balance, and Flexibility: Yoga Is Meditation

7 Walking Meditation

8 A Day of Mindfulness

9 Really Doing What You’re Doing: Mindfulness in Daily Life

10 Getting Started in the Practice

II The Paradigm:
A New Way of Thinking
About Health and Illness

11 Introduction to the Paradigm

12 Glimpses of Wholeness, Delusions of Separateness

14 Doctors, Patients, and People: Moving Toward a Unified Perspective on Health and Illness

15 Mind and Body: Evidence That Beliefs, Attitudes, Thoughts, and Emotions Can Harm or Heal

16 Connectedness and Interconnectedness

18 Change: The One Thing You Can Be Sure Of

19 Stuck in Stress Reactivity

20 Responding to Stress Instead of Reacting

IV The Applications:
Taking on the Full Catastrophe

21 Working with Symptoms: Listening to Your Body

22 Working with Physical Pain: Your Pain Is Not You

23 More on Working with Pain

24 Working with Emotional Pain: Your Suffering Is Not You … But There Is Much You Can Do to Heal It

25 Working with Fear, Panic, and Anxiety

26 Time and Time Stress

27 Sleep and Sleep Stress

28 People Stress

32 World Stress

V The Way of Awareness

33 New Beginnings

34 Keeping Up the Formal Practice

35 Keeping Up the Informal Practice

36 The Way of Awareness

Acknowledgments

Awareness Calendars

Guided Mindfulness Meditation Practice CDs with Jon Kabat-Zinn: Ordering Information

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