Full Catastrophe Living: Using the Wisdom of Your Body and Mind to Face Stress, Pain, and Illness: How to Cope with Stress, Pain and Illness Using Mindfulness Meditation

Kabat-Zinn, founder of the Stress Reduction Clinic at the University of Massachusetts Medical Center, is perhaps the best-known proponent of using meditation to help patients deal with illness. (The somewhat confusing title is from a line in Zorba the Greek in which the title character refers to the ups and downs of family life as “the full catastrophe.”) But this book is also a terrific introduction for anyone who has considered meditating but was afraid it would be too difficult or would inclu

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