“In mindfulness-based programs people learn to face their life problems and develop personalized strategies for working with them rather than simply giving themselves over to “experts” who are supposed to just “fix them” or make their problems magically disappear. Such programs are vehicles in which people can work to be healthier and more resilient, changeContinue reading “Jon Kabat-Zinn’s “Full Catastrophe Living”: Doctors, Patients and People”
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Jon Kabat-Zinn: “Full Catastrophe Living”: ,
“Remember, acceptance does not mean passive resignation. Not at all. It means taking a reading of the situation, feeling it and embracing it in awareness as completely as one can manage, however challenging and horrible it can be, and recognizing that things are as they are, independent of us liking or disliking the situation andContinue reading “Jon Kabat-Zinn: “Full Catastrophe Living”: ,”
Jon Kabat-Zinn’s “Full Catastrophe Living”; mindfulness for the rest of your life
“Our own commitment to the practice of MBSR (mindfulness based stress reduction) instructors conveys wordlessly our conviction that the journey we are inviting our patients to undertake s true live adventure, one that we can engage and pursue together over the eight weeks of the MBSR programme. The real mindfulness practice is how we liveContinue reading “Jon Kabat-Zinn’s “Full Catastrophe Living”; mindfulness for the rest of your life”
Jon Kabat-Zinn’s “Full Catastrophe Living”: Non-Striving
“Although it takes a lot of work and energy of a certain kind, ultimately meditation is a non-doing, It has no goal other than for you to be yourself. The irony is that you are already are, this sounds paradoxical and a little crazy, Yet this paradox and craziness may be pointing you toward aContinue reading “Jon Kabat-Zinn’s “Full Catastrophe Living”: Non-Striving”
Jon Kabat Zinn’s “Full Catastrophe Living”: Patience
“We intentionally remind ourselves that there is no need to be impatient with ourselves because we find the mind judging ourselves because we find the mind judging all the time, or because we are tense or agitated or frightened, or because we have been practicing for some time and nothing positive seems to have happened.Continue reading “Jon Kabat Zinn’s “Full Catastrophe Living”: Patience”
“Full Catastrophe Living”: Jon Kabat-Zinn: A little bit about mindfulness
“ Learning how to suspend all your doing and shift over to a being mode, how to make time for yourself, how to slow down and nurture calmness and self-acceptance in yourself, learning to observe what your mind is up to from moment to moment, how to watch your thoughts and how to let goContinue reading ““Full Catastrophe Living”: Jon Kabat-Zinn: A little bit about mindfulness”
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