Mindfulness meditation for pain relief Practices to reclaim your body and your life
Book - 2023
"We know that practicing mindfulness in everyday life can help us reduce stress and cultivate deep, embodied well-being-but what about its effects on physical and emotional pain, especially when it seems overwhelming or unrelenting? Jon Kabat-Zinn developed Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) to help medical patients with ongoing pain conditions who were not responding to conventional therapies. Since then, the practices of MBSR have become world-renowned for their effectiveness in pain management. With Mindfulness Meditation for Pain Relief, Kabat-Zinn provides a range of evidence-based mindfulness meditation practices that anyone can apply gently and effectively to even the most intense forms of pain and suffering. Mindfulness ...Meditation for Pain Relief is a soothing and beautifully illustrated book with accompanying guided meditations and teachings offered digitally. It opens with an overview of seven fundamental attitudes we can develop to cultivate mindfulness in relationship to chronic pain and its incessant challenges, and follows with concepts and practices including: mindful breathing, working with intense sensations, befriending thoughts and emotions, finding refuge in awareness, and bringing mindfulness into every life"--
- Subjects
- Genres
- Self-help publications
- Published
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Boulder, CO :
Sounds True
2023.
- Language
- English
- Main Author
- Item Description
- Contains material prevously released in audio disc format in 2010.
- Physical Description
- vi, 201 pages : color illustrations ; 23 cm
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN
- 9781683649380
- Introduction
- 1. Learning to Live with Pain
- The Power of Attention
- Entering into the Dance
- Reclaiming Your Life
- 2. Delving into the Heart of the Matter
- 3. Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction
- Mindfulness Is Pure Awareness
- 4. Seven Principles for Working with Pain
- 5. How to Cultivate Mindfulness
- A Few Practical Tips
- Postures for Formal Meditation
- How to Use the Guided Audio Practices
- 6. The Power of Disciplined Practice-Texts of the Guided Meditations
- The Guided Meditations-Expanded Texts to Complement the Audio Guidance
- Meditation #1. Mindfulness of Breathing
- Meditation #2. What to Do about Pain
- Meditation #3. Working with Thoughts and Emotions Having to Do with Pain
- Meditation #4. Resting in Awareness
- Meditation #5. A Short Scan of the Body
- 7. Mindfulness in Everyday Life-The True "Curriculum"
- Six Final Suggestions
- In Conclusion: Every In-Breath Is a New Beginning
- Resources
- About the Author
- The JKZ Meditations App