| Description |
xxiii, 467 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Note |
A Delta book. |
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Reprinted by arrangement with Delacorte Press. |
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"This program of the Stress Reduction Clinic at the University of Massachusetts Medical Center." |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| Summary |
A guide to awareness meditation methods offers a program for coping with illnesses as well as everyday stress. |
| Contents |
You have only moments to live -- The foundation of mindfulness practice: attitudes and commitment -- The power of breathing: your unsuspected ally in the healing process -- Sitting meditation: nourishing the domain of being -- Being in your body: the body-scan technique -- Cultivating strength, balance, and flexibility: yoga is meditation -- Walking meditation -- A day of mindfulness -- Really doing what you're doing: mindfulness in daily life -- Getting started in the practice -- Introduction to the paradigm -- Glimpses of wholeness, delusions of separateness -- On healing -- Doctors, patients, and people: moving toward a unified perspective on health and illness -- Mind and body: evidence that beliefs, attitudes, thoughts, and emotions can harm or heal -- Connectedness -- Stress -- Change: one thing you can be sure of -- Stuck in stress reactivity -- Responding to stess instead of reacting -- Working with symptoms: listening to your body -- Working with physical pain: your pain is not you -- More on pain -- Working with emotional pain: your suffering is not you...but there is much you can do to heal it -- Working with fear, panic, and anxiety -- Time and time stress -- Sleep and sleep stress -- People stress -- Role stress -- Work stress -- Food stress -- World stress -- New beginnings -- Keeping up the formal practice -- Keeping up the informal practice -- The way of awareness. |
| Subject |
Stress management.
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Stress (Psychology)
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Stress, Psychological -- Popular Works.
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Stress, Psychological -- prevention & control -- Popular Works.
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| Added Author |
University of Massachusetts Medical Center/Worcester. Stress Reduction Clinic.
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| ISBN |
0385303122 paperback $12.00 |
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9780385303125 paperback |
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