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
Each time we recognize a thought as a thought when it arises and we register its content and discern the strength of its hold on us, as well as the accuracy of its content, we are strengthening the mindfulness muscle.
Jon Kabat-Zinn • Full Catastrophe Living, Revised Edition: How to cope with stress, pain and illness using mindfulness meditation
When you are immersed in doing without being centered, it feels like being away from home. And when you reconnect with being, even for a few moments, you know it immediately.
Jon Kabat-Zinn • Full Catastrophe Living, Revised Edition: How to cope with stress, pain and illness using mindfulness meditation
people might benefit most by staying with the breath and a sense of the body as a whole in the early stages of their meditation practice, especially
Jon Kabat-Zinn • Full Catastrophe Living, Revised Edition: How to cope with stress, pain and illness using mindfulness meditation
The point is that we don’t always know what our true limits are. However,
Jon Kabat-Zinn • Full Catastrophe Living, Revised Edition: How to cope with stress, pain and illness using mindfulness meditation
Being aware of the carriage of the body and of your body language, including facial expressions, and what they reveal about your attitudes and feelings, can help you to change your attitudes and feelings just by adjusting your physical posture.
Jon Kabat-Zinn • Full Catastrophe Living, Revised Edition: How to cope with stress, pain and illness using mindfulness meditation
the body is never in a fixed state. It is constantly changing, responding to the demands placed upon it. If it is never asked to bend or squat or twist or stretch or run, then its ability to do these things doesn’t just stay the same—it actually decreases over time.
Jon Kabat-Zinn • Full Catastrophe Living, Revised Edition: How to cope with stress, pain and illness using mindfulness meditation
mindfulness is essentially about relationality—in other words, how we are in relationship to everything,
Jon Kabat-Zinn • Full Catastrophe Living, Revised Edition: How to cope with stress, pain and illness using mindfulness meditation
“stimulus-independent thought” or “mind wandering” appears to be the brain’s default mode of operation.
Jon Kabat-Zinn • Full Catastrophe Living, Revised Edition: How to cope with stress, pain and illness using mindfulness meditation
Yet we hardly ever appreciate the great marvel of walking.